Saturday 5 May 2012

ADOLESCENCE – PERIOD OF DILEMMA, STRESS AND ADJUSTMENT


Education is the need of the time. A child is admitted in the school at the age of 3 or 4 years andhe passes through several stages of education to develop himself into a social human being and a worthy citizen. During these stages he also passes through the different life stages as such the childhood, adolescence, and youth. The adolescence is that stage of development whereby he feels several changes related to the physical, mental, moral, psychological, social, and emotional development. In the present study adjustment means a constant harmonious interaction between a person and his environment. The objectives of the study were to study the effect of birth order, gender and the medium of instruction of the adolescents on their adjustment. The Multi-stage sampling was used. Four high schools of Ahmedabad district were randomly selected of which two schools were from the rural area whereas other two were in the urban area. Thus 120 students of high schools were selected. Survey method was used and a Standardised adjustment inventory prepared by K. G. Desai (1997) was used and the data was collected from the above said sample. For the analysis and interpretation of data Mean, S.D, and t-test was used. The study concluded that adjustment of the adolescents of Ahmedabad district bearing the different birth order, gender and medium of instruction schools of Ahmedabad district is the same.
By Avdhesh S. Jha Amit Dwivedi and Prashant V. Singh
(Full article is published in Voice of Research-An International Journal)

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