Adjustment Ability of Tribal Boys – An Analysis

Purpose: The study was to find out and compare the adjustment ability i.e. emotional adjustment, social adjustment and educational adjustment of school going boys between tribal community and general community. Subject: Total four hundred sixteen (N = 416) boys student (equally from tribal & general community) were selected as subjects by random sampling technique from six different schools ( govt. sponsored) of Bankura, Jhargram and Paschim Medinipur districts of West Bengal state. Each district cover two Sub-divisions for the study. The age of the subject was ranged from 13 years to 16 years which grouped into four age groups like 13 years, 14 years, 15 years,16 years and in each age group the subjects were categories into two i.e. TB for tribal boys & GB for general boys respectively. Criterion measured: The test of Adjustment Ability was assessed through Adjustment inventory for school student (AISS) by A.K.P. Sinha and R.P. Singh through a specific questionnaire. Statistics: Mean and standard deviation (S.D.) were calculated for analysis of data. Statistical significance of two groups, mean difference was tested by Independent - sample T-test. For comparing the significance of two means, mean difference, the level of significance was set as 0.05 level of confidence. All the statistics were calculated by using SPSS version 25.