A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ADJUSTMENT BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS AT UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL

Adjustment is an important part of the behavior. It is a learned behavior by which a person copes up with the changed environment. Students have to adjust themselves in new environment of college after passing the secondary school. To understand the problem of adjustment in college student a study was conducted in 2020 between boys and girls at undergraduate level. In this study we used the stratified random sampling technique. The tool used to measure the adjustment level of students is: Adjustment Inventory for College Students developed by A.K.P Sinha and R.P Singh in 1995. Areas of Adjustment were Locality (Home), Health Adjustment, Social Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment and Educational Adjustment In all the categories boys were found better adapted than the girls except health adaptation.