Adjustment
Inventory for
School
Students
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Aim: To measure the adjustment of an individual using a standardized test for adjustment by
AKP Sinha and RP Singh.
Baslc Concept
The concept of adjustment has originated from the term 'adaptation'. It is the process where an
individual cope, responds to their environment. The behavioural process by which humans and
other animals maintain a state of equilibrium by various needs is called adjustment. It is how
they cope with change in the environment to act eficiently maintaining homeostasis.
James Denver defines adjustment as the modification to compensate for or meet special
conditions.
James. C. Coleman says that adjustment is the outcome of the individual's attempts to deal with
the stress and meet his needs, also his eftorts to maintain hamonious relationships with the
environment
Adaptation is the action or process of adapting. It is also the process of change by which an
organism or species becomes better suited to its environment.
Features:
*Varies from culture to culture
*Subjective in nature
*Continuous process
In the present test. adjuatment is being measured by three different ways:
*Soclal - Man needs to be accepted by the society in which he lives. He has to follow
norms of the society to be adjusted. He has to seek approval of the society and act
accordingly.
*Emotional - An individual is emotionally adjusted if he/she is happy with themselves,
realizes his/her potential and is content with what he/she has achieved.
* Educational - An educationally well-adjusted person is one who has an ability to think
and innovate, he/she needs to be happy in their academic achievements.
Istory and description
The AISS seeks to segregate well-adjusted school students [14-18 years] from poorly adjusted
students in 3 areas social, emotional, and educational. The test consists of 60 items where the
subject is required to answer in lems ot yes or no. each iem in the test is scored as per the
the manual. The subject be classified into five categories accordance
instructions given in can
with the raw scores obtained by them in the inventory. The five categories are
in
.A-Excellent
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2. B-Good
5. C-Average
4. D-Unsatisfactory
5. E-Very Unsatisfactory
Reliability
Split half-095
Test retest 0.93
Preliminaries
Subject's name
Age
Gender
Class
Place of conduction
Materials required
AISS questionnaire, response sheet, scoring sheet. pen pencil
Precautions
. Optimal conditions for testing should be ensured before starting the test.
2. No questions should be left unanswered
3. Instructions should be clearly given
Rapport Formationn
The subject was made to feel comfortable. General questions about the subject's day and life
were asked. The subject was ensured that the results will be kept confidential.
Instructions
The following instructions were given:
In each item can be answered in yes or no
Don't leave any question and try to complete as soon as possible.
T h e r e are no rignt or wrong answers
G i v e the first natural answer as it comes to you. When in doubt, give the best possible
answer.
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Read the questions carefuly
There is no time limit for this test
Administration
After the instructions ere given, the subject was asked to fill in the demographic details. It was
ensured that all instructions were clearly understood by the subject. The introspective report was
taken after the administration was done. The subject was asked to check whether he/'she left any
items unanswered.
Introspective Report/Verbal report
The test was quite insightful and fun to do. The tester made me feel at ease.
You can write the introspective report given by your subject)
Bchavloural report
The subject was calm while answering the questions. He/she did not take a long time in
completing the test.
Scoring
Scoring was done as per the instructions given in the manual. The responses of the subject was
marked in the scoring sheet under the three dimensions and actual response [ARJ and expected
responses [ER] were tallied with one another. If the ER and AR matched then given I mark and
if it doesn't match then give 0 mark. Alter allotting the marks, total all the three dimensions and
interpret the scores from the result sheet.
Interpretation
Dimensions Total Score Result
Social
Emotional
Educational
Sum of all dimensions:
Conclusion
My subject has a total score of Suggesting he/she has adjustment.
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