SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY OF IMPHAL URBAN AREA

Author Details

Thokchom Diana Devi¹, Md. Baharuddin Shah²

¹Assistant Professor, Department of Home Science, G. P. Women’s College, Imphal – 795001

²Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, G. P. Women’s College, Imphal – 795001

Abstract

To determine the level of adjustment of college going adolescents of Manipur from the perspective of two dimensions – social and emotional is the main aim of this paper. Adolescents are compared among rural, urban and urban exposed based on the location of their permanent address. Overall adjustment index indicates that there is no high difference between the three groups. However, it reveals that almost 80 percent of them are unsatisfactory or very unsatisfactory in adjustment. No case of excellence in adjustment is observed in both rural and urban exposed in the overall dimension.Some important background characteristics of respondents such as their religion, age, sex, family income, duration of stay at the present address are taken into consideration while comparing. These indicators are assumed to be potentials factors in adjustment of individuals.

In the present study, 1071 students studying in 2nd semester of their graduation in seven different colleges situated in Imphal urban were sampled. Data collection was done by using the Adjustment Inventory for College Students (AICS-SS). To ascertain the level of adjustment as excellent, good, average, unsatisfactory, very unsatisfactory, structured questionnaire of Likert scale of five point scales has been used and accordingly adjustment index are calculated. Analysis of data is done mostly with percentage method and is supported by chi square test for significant testing.

Keywords: College students, Adolescent, Social adjustment, Emotional adjustment, Duration of Stay,

Please cite this article as: Thokchom Diana Devi and Md. Baharuddin Shah. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY OF IMPHAL URBAN AREA . International Journal of Recent Research and Applied Studies, 2015, 2, 12(29), 137 – 142.