RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRESS AND ADJUSTMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF DISADVANTAGED GROUP

Stress and Adjustment have become a great challenge for teenagers. Stressful atmosphere of society and Adjustment play a vital role in increasing rate of dropout. In the case of scheduled caste students, parents and guardian are not in a condition to guide them due to illiteracy, poverty and lack of understanding. Therefore, the investigator inclines to study the variables stress and adjustment of secondary school students of a disadvantaged group. The investigator has adopted survey method for the present study. The investigator used stratified random sampling technique for selecting the sample. Four hundred eighty students were randomly selected from 12 schools of three different districts of Bihar. Mean, Standard Deviation and co-efficient of correlation by covariance methods were used for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that there is no significant relationship between stress and adjustment in male disadvantaged secondary school students, while significant relationships were established between stress and adjustment of female secondary school students. On the other hand, there is a significant relationship between adjustment and stress of disadvantaged secondary school students.