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Emotional, Social, Educational Adjustment of Higher Secondary School Students in Relation to Academic Achievement

J. Master Arul Sekar *, 0**

* Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Periyar Maniammai University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India.

** Assistant Professor, School of Education, Tamil Nadu Open University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Periodicity:May - July'2016
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jpsy.10.1.7070

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate whether there is any significant relationship between adjustment and academic achievement of higher secondary school students. In this survey study, the investigators used stratified random sampling technique for selecting the sample from the population. The stratification was done on the basis of gender and locality of students. The sample consists of 350 higher secondary school students from ten schools in Thanjavur District, TamilNadu, India. The tools used for the present study were Adjustment Inventory developed by A.K.P. Sinha and R.P. Singh (2007) and academic achievement constructed by the investigator. The statistical techniques used for analyzing the data for the present study was Karl Pearson's product moment co-efficient of correlation. The finding shows that, there is a significant relationship between emotional, social, educational adjustment of higher secondary school students in relation to academic achievement.

Keywords

Emotional Adjustment, Social Adjustment, Educational Adjustment, Academic Achievement, Higher Secondary Students

How to Cite this Article?

Sekar, J. M. A., and Lawrence, A. S. A. (2016). Emotional, Social, Educational Adjustment of Higher Secondary School Students In Relation to Academic Achievement. i-manager’s Journal on Educational Psychology, 10(1), 29-35. https://doi.org/10.26634/jpsy.10.1.7070

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