ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH RESPECT TO GENDER AND SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

The present research work was specifically undertaken to study the adjustment problems of senior secondary school students with respect to their gender and school environment. Survey technique under descriptive method of research was adopted in this present investigation. By employing convenient sampling technique a sample of 750 senior secondary schools students were selected from four district of Himachal Pradesh. The data were collected with the help of standardized tool i.e. ”Adjustment Inventory for School Students” by Sinha and Singh (2007) and “School Environment Scale” developed by researcher herself. The collected data were analyzed by employing Analysis of Variance (Two way). The results of the study revealed that there exists no significant gender-wise difference in adjustment problem of senior secondary school students. The results also revealed that that senior secondary school students possessing different level of school environment did not differ significantly from each other with regard to their adjustment problems. Further, the results showed that there exists no significant combined influence of gender and school environment with respect to adjustment problems of secondary school students. This showed that gender and level of school environment did not taken together influenced adjustment problem of senior secondary school students significantly. Towards the end of the paper major findings, discussion on the results and implications of the findings of the investigation have been discussed in detail.