Family Pathology and Adjustment among Young Adolescents

Abstract

In this paper the motive is to understand how the deviances and diversions in familial relationships contribute to the development, mental health and over all functioning and the level of adjustment of the adolescents. To what extent a faulty behavior can cause harm to the behavior of the young teenagers and cause hindrances in the adjustment in the society. The main aim of this study was to assess the impact of family pathology on the adjustment level of young adolescents. Accordingly, the study was conducted on two set of populations the mothers of young adolescents and the young school going adolescents aged 14 to 18 years old. The main areas of judgment were the level of adjustment and the following sub scales that were emotional, social, and educational. The data was collected from these two groups and was further analyzed with the help of SPSS tool. The methods used for the analysis were Mean, Standard deviation (SD) to know about the comparison between the two genders and correlation to find the significant relation between the two variables. The finding suggests that there is a significant relationship between the two variables and family pathology affects the adjustment level of young adolescents, and children can find difficulty in adjustment in emotional, social, and educational spectrums respectively. The results reveal that males have a higher mean and SD score in all the adjustment subscales and major scale which suggests that in comparison to females, males found it more difficult to adjust in school environment in the presence of family pathology or maladaptive behavior.