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ADJUSTMENT INVENTORY for



SCHOOL STUDENTS AISS-ss A. K. P. Sinha,



Dr. R. P. Singh,



Retd.



Professor and Head Department of Psychology Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla University RAIPUR (C.G.)



and



Retd.



Professor and Head Department of Education Patna University PATNA (Bihar)



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INTRODUCTION



The Adjustment Inventory has been designed for use with Hindi knowing school students of India. The inventory seeks to segregate well adjusted secondary school students (age group 14 to 18 years) from poorly adjusted students in the three areas of adjustment: Emotional, Social and Educational. A list of 100 questions indicating the significant problems of school students in the three areas were prepared. The questions were to be answered in 'Yes' or 'No'. This list was presented to 25 judges, all of whom were psychologists engaged in teaching, counselling or vocational guidance work, to judge each item in term of its merit for being included in the inventory. Only such items were retained about which the judges were unanimous. This led to the eliminated of 12 out of 100 items. Before undertaking the work of item analysis, the inventory was administered to a sample of 100 students to remove the language difficulties, if any reported by them in understanding clearly the different items. Item Analysis



The list of remaining 88 items was administered on two groups of subjects-group A and group B. Group A consisted of 100 such students who were judged to be welladjusted and Group B of 100 students judged to be poorly adjusted by a group of five teachers who know them very well. Chi-square test was applied to compare the responses of the two groups in respect of each item. Fourteen out of a total of 88 items which did not discriminate the two groups significantly were eliminated from the test. The 74 items that were retained were administered to a group of 370 secondary school students of Patna. The distributions of scores for the whole inventory and for the three parts of it were tested for normality. As the scores did not depart significantly from a normal distribution, biserial correlations of each item (1) with the total scores on the inventory and (2) with the areas total scores were computed. The significance of biserial correlation at .05 level was fixed as the criterion for retaining an item. This led to the elimination of 14 items out of 74. The final inventory consisted of 60 items, 20 items in each area of adjustment.



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Area-wise Type of Item Sr. Distribution Sr.



Serial No. of Item



Adjustment Areas



No.



Serial No. of Item



showing Adjustment



Total



marked 'Never'



I.



Total



ment marked 'Always'



-



Emotional



showing Maladjust-



Total Item in Area



-



1,4,7,10,13,16, 19,22, 25,28,31,34,37, 40,43,



20



20 20



46,49, 52,55,58



II.



Social



11, 17,20,23,26,32,38,



13



2,5, 8, 14, 29,35, 47



07



10



3,6, 9, 15,21,27, 36,



10



41,44, 50,53,56, 59



m.



Educational



12, 18, 24, 30, 33, 48, 51 , 54,57, 60



20



39,42,45



23



Grand Total



37



+



60



Sample



. The 60 item inentory, in its final form , was administered to a randomly selected representative sample of 1950 (1200 boys and 750 girls) from class IX to XI grade pupils of 40 sqhools of Bihar of the age of 14-18 years. The distributions of scores were tested for normality by applying Chi-square technique. The distributions did not depart significantly from normality. Reliability



Coefficient of reliability was determined by (i) Split-half method, (ii) Test retest method, and (iii) K-R formula-20. Table 2 gives the reliability coefficients of the total test .and of sub-tests by different methods. .



TABLE 2



Reliability Coefficients of the Inventory Sr. No.



Method Used



Emotional



Social



Educational



Total



I.



Split-half



0.94*



0.93*



0.96*



0.94*



II.



Test-retest



0.96*



0.90*



0.93*



0.93*



Ill.



K-R Formula-20



0.92*



0.92*



0.96*



0.93*



* Significant at .01 level of significance.



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Validity In item-analysis validity coefficients were determined for each item by biserial correlation method and only such items were retained which yielded biserial correlation with both the criteria (i) total score and (ii) area score, signficant level being .001. Inter-correlations among the three areas of the inventory were calculated. The correlation matrix is being presented in Table 3.



TABLE 3



Correlation Matrix of the Three Areas Sr. No.



Adjustment Areas



I



II



Ill



I.



Emotional



-



.20



.19



II.



Social



.20



-



.24



Ill.



Educational



.19



.24



-



The inventory was also validated by correlating inventory scores with ratings by the Hostel Superintendent. This was done on the data of 60 pupils living in the hostel of Patna Collegiate Multipurpose Higher Secondary School. The Hostel Superintendent rated the.pupils on a five point scale, namely, Excellent, Good, Average, Poor, and Very Poor in respect of their adjustments. The product moment coefficient of correlation between inventory scores and superintendent's ratings was obtained to be 0.51, which was significant at .01 level of significance.



Revision of the Inventory With the feedback from the researchers and users of the Inventory, it was felt to revise the Inventory on the front of making it a Three point response scale in place of former Two point, i.e., Yes & No. The new formate has now Three points alternate response system viz. ,



Always



Sometimes



Never



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There is no change in the number or formate or language of the statements since the had been selected by experts, tryouts and Item Analysis. ~



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Following is the new scoring system for the new Three-point alternative response. TABLE 4: Scoring System Sometimes Always Type of Items crs3ft-cr;3ft



r



Sr. No.



Never



c53ft onft



I.



Marked 'Always,



2



1



0



II.



Marked 'Never'



0



1



2



The lesser the score, the better is the level of adjustment. Statistical Results



The revised formate of the Inventory was administered on a student sample of 350 (200 boys and 150 girls) in the age group 14 years to 18 years in the state of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The Statistical Results so achieved from this sample have been given in Table 5. TABLE 5 Statistical Results Full Inventory



Girls



Boys Area



Sr. No.



I



N



Mean



SD



N



Mean



SD



N



Mean



SD



1.



Emotional



200



17.50



5.15



150



15.50



5.00



350



16.50



5.75



2.



Social



200



18.00



6.00



150



16.80



6.15



350



17.40



6.75



3.



Educational



200



18.50



7.30



150



17.60



7.50



350



18.05



7.40



Full Inventory



200



18.00



6.15



150



16.33



6.21



350



51.95



19.90



TABLE 6 Range of Raw Score Emotional 00 to 40



Social · 00 to 40



Educational 00 to 40



Full Inventory 00 to 120



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Norms On the basis of the statistical results presented In Table 5, Areawise z-Scores Norms for the total Sample of 350 have been presented in Table 7, 8 and 9. z-Score Norms for the Full Inventory have been presented in Table 1O. Norms for interpretation of the level of a djustment have been presented in Table 11. TABLE 7 z-Score Norms for Area : EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT



Mean= 16-50



SD= 5.75



N=350



z-



RAW



z-



RAW



z-



RAW



z-



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



-2-86



11



--0-95



22



+0-95



33



+2·86



01



- 2-69



12



--0-78



23



+1 -13



34



+3·04



02



-2-52



13



--0-60



24



+1·30



35



+3·21



03



- 2-34



14



--0-43



25



+1·47



36



+3·39



04



-2-17



15



--0-26



26



+1·65



37



+3-56



05



-2-00



16



--0-08



27



+1-82



38



+3•73



06



-1 -82



17



+0-08



28



+2-00



39



+3·91



07



-1-65



18



+0-26



29



+2·17



40



+4•08



08



-1-47



19



+0-43



30



+2-34



09



-1 -30



20



+0-60



31



+2·52



10



-1 -13



21



+0-78



32



+2 -69



RAW Score



00



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z-Score Norms for Area : SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT



N =350



SD= 6-75



Mean = 17-40 RAW



z-



RAW



z-



RAW



z-



RAW



z-



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



00



-2-57



11



-0-94



22



+0-68



33



+2·31



01



-2-42



12



-0-80



23



+0·82



34



+2-45



02



-2-28



13



-0-66



24



+0•97



35



+2·60



03



-2-21



14



-0-50



25



+1-12



36



+2-75



04



- 1-98



15



-0-35



26



+1•27



37



+2-90



05



- 1-83



16



-0-20



27



+1-42



38



+3-05



06



- 1-68



17



-0-05



28



+1-57



39



+3-20



07



- 1-54



18



+0-08



29



+1 -71



40



+3-34



08



-1-39



19



+0-23



30



+1 -86



09



- 1-24



20



+0·38



31



+2-01



10



-1 -09



21



+0-53



32



+2-16



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TABLE 9 z-Score Norms for Area : EDUCATIONAL ADJUS TMENT



Mean = 18,05



N = 350



SD = 7•40



z-



RAW



z-



RAW



z-



RAW



z-



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



Score



00



-2-43



11



-0-95



22



+0-53



33



+2-02



01



-2-30



12



-0-81



23



+0-66



34



+2·15



02



- 2-16



13



-0-68



24



+0-80



35



+2-29



03



-2-03



14



-0-54



25



+0-93



36



+2 -42



04



-1 -89



15



-0-41



26



+1-07



37



+2 -56



05



· - 1-76



16



-0-27



'lJ



+1·20



38



+2-69



06



- 1-62



17



-0-14



28



+1-34



39



+2-83



07



- 1-49



18



±0-00



29



+1-47



40



+2-96



08



-1 -35



19



+0-12



30



+1-61



09



-1 -22



20



+0-26



31



+1-68



10



-1 -08



21



+0-39



32



+1-88



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TABLE 10 z-Score Norms for : FULL ADJUSTMENT iNVENTORY



SD = 19-90



Mean = 51-95 z-



RAW Score



Score



00



- 2-61



01



RAW Score



N =350



z-



RAW



z-



Score



Score



Score



- 1-05



62



+0-50



- 2-56



31 32



- 1-00



02



- 2-51



33



-0-95



63 64



03



- 2•45



34



-0-90



04



-2-40



-0-85



05 06



-2-35



35 36



-2-30



37



-0-75



07



-2-25



38



-0-70



08 09



-2-20



39



-0-65



-2-15



40



-2- 11 - 2-05



41 42



- 2-00



-0-80



65 66 67 68



RAW Score



zScore +2·06



+0-55



93 94



+0-60



95



+2·16



+0-65



96



+2·21



+0-70



97



+2-26



+0-75



98



+2-31



+0-80



99



+2-36



+0-85



100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120



+2-41



-0-60



69 70 71



+0-95



-0-55



72



+1-00



-0-50



73



+1-05



43



-0-45



+1-10



- 1-95



44



-0-40



- 1-90



45



-0-34



74 75 76



- 1-85



46



-0·29



n



47



+1 -25



- 1-80



-0-24



78



+1-30



- 1-75



48



-0-19



+1 -35 +1-40



+0-90



10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19



- 1-70



49



-0-14



79 80



- 1-65



50



-0-09



20



81



21



-0-04



82



- 1-55



51 52



+1 -45



- 1-60



+1 -51



22 23



±0·00



83



- 1-50



53



+1-56



+0-05



84



- 1-45



54



+1-61



24



+0-10



- 1-40



+1 -66



25 26 27 28 29 30



+0-15



-1 -35



+1-71



+0-20



- 1-30



55 56 57



85 86 87



+1 •76



+0-25



-1-25



88



58



+1-81



+0-30



-1-20



59



89



+1 ·86



+0·39



- 1-15



60



90



+0-40



+1 -91



- 1-10



61



91



+0-45



+1-96



92



+2-01



+1-15 +1-20



+2·11



+2-46 +2·51 +2-56 +2-61 +2-66 +2-71 +2-76 +2-81 +2-86 +2 -91 +2-96 +3-01 +3-06 +3·11 +3-16 +3-21 +3-26 +3-31 +3-36 +3-41



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Extremely High Adjustment



-2.01 & below 11 & less



03 & less



03 & less



04 & less



** The lower the score, better is adjustment.



Important : * High Score indicates Unsatisfactory Adjustment



7.



High Adjustment -2.00 to -1 .26 12-26



04-08



04-08



05-09



6.



Above Average Adjustment



-1.25 to -0.51 ·



27-41



10-13



5.



09-14



14-20



14-19



4. 09-13



22-27



21-25



20-23



3.



Average/ Moderate Adjustment



78-91



28-32



26-30



24-28



-0.50 to +0.50



Extremely Unsatisfactory Adju~tment



42-62



+2.01 & above



15-21



92 & more



Below Averag.e Adjustment



'



Adjustment



+0.51 to +1.25



33 & more



Range



of



63-77



31 & more



Educational



Range



Level



Unsatisfactory Adjustment



'-



Social



Raw Score



Inventory



z-Score



+ 1.26 to +2.00



I



I



29 & more



Emotional



Area-wise Raw Score Range



Full



2.



1.



Sr.No.



TABLE 11



Norms for Interpretation of the Level of Adjustment



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REFERENCES Hussain, Shamshad and Kaur, Jasbir (1995). Old-Age Adjustment Inventory, Agra: National Psychological Corporation . Kumar, P. (2016). Adjustment Inventory, Agra: National Psychological Corporation. Mohsin, S. M.; Hussian, S. and Jehan, K. (2012). Mohsin Shamshad Hindi Adaptation of Bell Adjustment Inventory, Agra: H.P. Bhargava Book House. Ojha, R. K. (2013). Adjustment Inventory, Agra: National Psychological Corporation. Rani, S. and Singh, B. 8. (2014). Educational Adjustment Inventory, Agra : H. P. Bhargava Book House. Singh, A. K. and Sen Gupta, A. (2007). High School Adjustment Inventory, Agra: National Psychological Corporation. Sinha, A. K. P. and Singh, R. P (2012). Adjustment Inventory for College Students, Agra: National Psychological Corporation.



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On the next pages, there are some statements covering your school problems, which have three responses alternatives •Always• and 'Sometimes' and 'Never'. Read every statements carefully and decide whether you want to answer it with . If your answer is in "Always", then tick the right mark 0 under "Always", if in "Sometimes" , tick the right mark @ under "Sometimes" and if in "Never", tick the right mark @ under Never Remember your answer will be told to any person, so please give the correct answer without hesitation. You may take your own time , but try to finish it as soon as possible. 11



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State ments



1.



Are you always afraid of something in your school ?



2.



Do you avoid meeting your classmates ?



3.



Do you forget soon what you have read ?



4.



Suppose, your classmates do something unreasonable unknowingly, do you immediately get angry with them ?



5.



Are you of a shy nature?



6.



Are you afraid of examinations ?



7.



Do you worry mistakes?



8.



Do you hesitate in asking a question when you don't understand something ?



9.



Is it difficult for you to understand the lessons taught in the class ?



10.



Are you jealous of those friends whom teachers appreciate wrymoch?



11. 12.



When some of your teachers are together, do you go there without any oomplex? Can you note down the lessons taught in class correctly ?



13;



Do you envy those classmates whom you think better than



your teacher scolding



you



for



your



~? 14.



Do you feel sometimes, as if you have no friend in your school ?



15.



Do you yawn when lesson in taught in your class ?



16.



When you see, some students talking themselves, do you think they are gossiping about you ?



17.



Are you able to get friendly with everyone easily ?



18.



Are you satisfied with the method of teaching of.your teachers of this



0



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Do you express your anger to others when you are not asked to come forward in any programme in your school ?



20.



When some students are together, do freely.



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Statements



21.



Do you think that the teachers in school do not pay any attention to your problems ?



22.



Are you often sad and distressed in the school ?



23.



Do you like to join your classmates working together ?



24.



Are you satisfied with the progress in your studies ?



25.



Do you feel the teachers neglect you ?



26.



Do you try to attract the attention of your teacher to yourself in the class?



27.



ts it a burden for you to study something ?



28.



Do you get yourself worked up and try to harm a student when he complains against you ?



29.



Do you often like to be alone ?



30.



Are your teachers always ready to solve your problems concerning your studies?



31.



Are you often dissatisfied with your school ?



32.



Do you establish a friendly relationship with the students in the school?



33.



Do your teachers in the school praise you ?



34.



Do you try to rationalise your mistake ?



35.



Do you like to sit in the front seats in the class ?



36.



Do you often get less marks in examination ?



37.



Do you resent it when your teachers ask you a question in the class?



38.



Do you have a friendly association with your fellow students ?



39 .



Do you like the idea of having more holidays in the school ?



40.



Do you get wild when one of your classmates jokes with you?



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Do you openly take part in the school assemblies ?



42.



Do you often quarrel with your classmates ?



43.



Do you sometimes go home before the schools closes ?



44.



Do you take part in the school sports ?



45.



Do some of your teachers often keep on scolding you for the studies?



46.



Do you often have doubt on others in the schools ?



47.



Are you shy of talking to the senior students in school ?



48.



Do you look at your teachers respectfully ?



49.



Do you show impertinance (arrogance) towards something good sent by a mate with whom you don't get along well ?



50.



Do you have some intimate friends in this school ?



51.



Do you pay attention to the lesson being taught in class ?



52.



Do you develop resentful feelings towards your teachers when you get less marks ?



53.



Are you always ready to help your classmates in everyway?



54.



Do you borrow books and magazines from the school library and read them ?



55.



Are you often afraid meething the senior students ?



56.



Do you enjoy irritating other students in the school ?



57.



Do you take part in the debates ?



58.



Do you feel mentally depressed when you meet the senior students?



59.



Do you lend your books or note-books gladly when your classmates ask for it ?



60.



Are you interested in the things regarding education ?



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