RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADJUSTMENT AND EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATION AMONG HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS: A STUDY

Adjustment may be considered as one of the most important aspect of human life and it may be defined as the process of finding and adopting modes of behaviour that are suitable to the various changes occurring in the environment. A well adjusted person is supposed to possess awareness about his/her own strength as well as adequate level of aspiration along with the capacity to deal effectively with the environment or circumstances. Aspiration is a hope or a kind of ambition of achieving something. The present study is an attempt to study the relationship between adjustment and educational aspiration. The sample for the study consisted of 720 higher secondary students. Bell's Adjustment Inventory developed by R. K. Ojha has been used to measure the adjustment difficulty in the four areas of adjustment i.e.- home, health, social and emotional and Educational Aspiration Scale Form P prepared by V. P. Sharma and Anuradha Gupta has been used to measure educational aspiration of the students. t-ratio has been computed to find out the difference between male and female students on adjustment and educational aspiration, and product moment co-efficient of correlation were calculated to find out the relationship between adjustment and educational aspiration.