ATTITUDE TOWARDS SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF PURULIA DISTRICT

Abstract

The present study was aimed to assess the social adjustment of the undergraduate students of Purulia District, West Bengal. Descriptive survey type research method was adopted by the researchers to conduct this study. All the undergraduate students of Purulia district are taken as the population of this study. The study analyzed the data from 276 undergraduate students. Out of this, 154 are male and 122 female. They all belong to the two undergraduate colleges which are affiliated to Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia. A self-made ‘Social Adjustment Inventory’ was used by the researchers to collect responses from the students and ‘t’-test was used to test the significant mean difference between the maintained variables. The findings of this study revealed that there is no significant difference existing between male-female, rural-urban, rural male-urban male and rural female –urban female undergraduate students of Purulia District regarding their attitude towards social adjustment.