SOCIO-PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS AT SECONDARY SCHOOL

Socio-personal Adjustment is defined as the interaction of organisms with other organisms and to their collective co-existence, irrespective of whether they are aware of it or not, and irrespective of whether the interaction is voluntary or non-voluntary. The population under study is prospective teachers at secondary level. The study was conducted on a sample of 900 prospective teachers at secondary level drawn from teacher training colleges under University of Calicut using stratified sampling technique. Survey method is used for the present study. A tool Socio-personal Adjustment Scale was used for measuring Socio-personal Adjustment of the sample. The result shows that there is significant difference in the mean difference of Socio-personal Adjustment between male and female prospective teachers. The positive sign of critical ratio [t= 4.65, P ≤ .01] shows that male prospective teachers are having more Socio-personal Adjustment than the female prospective teachers