Impact of Adjustment on Social Maturity of College Going Students

Abstract

Adjustment and Social Maturity are vital for an individual’s effective functioning. Personal growth and evolution require adjustment and social maturity. The research study explores the impact of adjustment on social maturity of college going students. The importance of adjustment and social maturity in a college student’s life has been established in the literature. The researcher collected data from 120 college going students, both boys and girls using two scales- Adjustment Inventory for College Students (AICS) by A.K.P Sinha and R.P Singh and Social Maturity Scale (SMS) by Dr. J Bharat Raj. The results of the study showed that there is a significant positive correlation between adjustment and social maturity among college going students. The result shows that the value of the product moment coefficient of correlation found between adjustment scores and social maturity scores for girls was r= -.288 which is significant at the 0.05 level of significance, confirming a positive correlation between adjustment and social maturity scores. The product moment coefficient of correlation found between adjustment scores and social maturity scores for boys was r= -.461 which is significant at the 0.05 level of significance, confirming a positive correlation between adjustment social maturity scores. This finding implies that students with higher adjustment tend to have better social maturity, while students with lower adjustment have poorer social maturity. The results of the study also reveal significant gender differences in the relationship between adjustment and social maturity. The t-value for the difference between the means of social maturity scores of college-going girls and college-going boys was 3.566, significant at the 0.01 level. The t-value for the difference between the means of adjustment scores of college-going girls and college-going boys was -6.614, also significant at the 0.01 level. The significant gender differences in adjustment and social maturity scores, as indicated by the independent-samples t-test results, suggest that there may be different factors contributing to school adjustment and social maturity for boys and girls.