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| Adjustment Level Among Adolescents in Relation to Achievement Motivation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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17441 Submission Date :
2022-12-09 Acceptance Date :
2022-12-22 Publication Date :
2022-12-25
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| Abstract |
The purpose behind this research was to find relative difference among High and Low Achievement Motivated adolescents in relation to their adjustment level alongwith to study the significant relationship between Adjustment level and Achievement Motivation of Adolescents. For the study a sample of 140 adolescents studying in different schools of Ambala District was taken. To analyse the data ‘t’ test and ‘r’ statistical techniques were applied. Results revealed a significant difference among High and Low Achievement motivated adolescents in relation to their Adjustment level. Further it was found that there exists highly positive relationship between Adjustment level and Achievement Motivations.
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| Keywords | Achievement Motivation, Self-Confidence, Adjustment Level among Adolescents. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduction |
In this age of competition, each and every individual is being assessed on the basis of his success and failure. These two key words of one’s life depend on his level of self-confidence. It is true reality that a self-confident person is treated as valuable asset to the society. Personality traits like, emotionally matured, intellectual, friendly, satisfied, optimistic, reliable and trustfulness are the ornaments of that type of person. Behind the scene of getting these traits, it is education which sets a stage to perform the role as well-adjusted person.
As the main aim of education is to adjust with environment so that a person may be able to attain his desired goal and for getting success in desired way. Achievement motivation plays vital role. Here, it, has been important to discuss these two words i.e. ‘Adjustment’ and ‘Achievement Motivation’
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| Objective of study | 1. To study the Level of Adjustment and Achievement Motivation of Adolescents.
2. To study the relative difference of Adjustment Level among high and low Achievement Motivated adolescents.
3. To study the relationship between Adjustment level and Achievement Motivation of Adolescent. |
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| Review of Literature | In this cut throat competitions age, it is very difficult to be a successful achiever. It is not the every body’s cup of tea to get success in his field. Only well-adjusted and target oriented people can achieve their desired goal. Keeping this situation in mind the researcher gone through the different researches i.e. Panday (1977); a study about the adjustment of bright and average students, Rai (1979); a study on adjustment and scholastic achievement of low and high achievers, Nayak (1990); a study on achievement motivation and level of aspiration on non-tribal children, Kaur (1995); a study on intelligence, achievement motivation and study habits; M. Irfan, Sharma H.K. (2006); a study regarding Adjustment, Achievement motivation and frustration among rural, urban, Muslim students in Punjab and then decided that there is a scope to undertake a study regarding Achievement Motivation and Adjustment level of school students. Further due to the rapidly changing scenario of world, it is the need of the hour to know deeply about the abilities, interest, level of Achievement Motivation and Adjustment of secondary school going students, so that their energy and potential may channelized in a positive way. This is why, the researcher chose this type of study for further research. Shradha Vyas (2021) through this study it was found that adjustment level of school going students play a vital role in their studies because only the student adjusted with environment may be able to get his desired goal.. |
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| Main Text |
Adjustment i. A continuous
process of life ii. Directly
affects an individual iii. Changes
one’s behavior iv. Prepares
him mentally v. Teaches
to keep harmonious relationship with environment In other words,
a process of behavior by which individual maintain equilibrium in his needs and
demands of the environment. Areas of
Adjustment The main areas
of adjustment are as under: 1. Personal
Adjustment 2. Home
Adjustment 3. Social
Adjustment 4. Emotional
Adjustment 5. Professional
Adjustment, etc. Well Adjusted
Person A person who
has mature personality and is able to control his emotions and deals with problems
without becoming anxious may be called as ‘well-adjusted person’. Let us have a
deep look on other word ‘Achievement
Motivation’ A task oriented
behavior which allows one’s performance to be evaluated according to some
internally or externally imposed criterion is called Achievement Motivation. It
also involves the individual to compete and to strive for success. Two type of
factors affect the Achievement Motivation (i) Personal
factors (ii) Social Factors I. Personal
Factors are those which pertain to the self of the individual.
These include cognitive factors (Into Motivation Creativity, learning capacity)
and Non cognitive factors (Aptitude, Level of Aspiration, Physical and Mental
Health along with Self Concept of the learner and heredity) II. Social
Factors are pertaining to the society. These include Home and Family
Environment, Community, School Environment, Classroom Environment, Friends and
Socio-economic Status. Statement of the
Problem Method Used Analysis
and Interpretation Table-1
To find out the High Achievement Motivated and Low Achievement motivated adolescents the upper 27% out of 140 and Lower 27% out of 140 were selected. df=72 Table value of df 72 at .05 level is 1.96 and at .01 level is 2.58 After that calculated ‘t’ value was found greater than the tabulated ‘t’ value at both the levels of significance.
Table value of df 138 at .05 level is .0195 and at .01 level is .254 The calculated value of ‘r’ is greater than the tabulated value at both the levels of significance. |
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| Findings | 1. According to Table-1, which shows the mean difference of Adjustment level among High and Low Achievement Motivated Adolescents, it was found that the data does not support the assumption and the hypothesis formulated ‘There is no significant difference among High and Low Achievement motivated adolescents in relation to their Adjustment level’ stands rejected. It exhibits that there exists highly significant difference about Adjustment Level among High and Low Achievement Motivated adolescents. Further it concludes that highly achievement motivated adolescents set the standards for themselves and then strive to achieve them. They regularly take down notes during teaching, complete their assignments timely and they do heartiest efforts to get good marks in all the subjects. On the other hand, less motivated achievement motivated adolescents prefer to miss the classes, induldge themselves in other type of activities during teaching hours, prefer to attend the social parties even during exam days and always create nuisance, in the class and annoy the teacher. They take life easy and never bother too much for further life. 2. According to Table-2, which shows the relationship between adjustment level and achievement motivation, it exhibits that the data does not support the assumption and the hypothesis formulated stands rejected. The result speaks highly that there exists highly positive relationship between Adjustment level and achievement Motivation. Specially during adolescence period achievement Motivation plays vital role for all levels of Adjustment. It helps the adolescents to explore according to their will, minimize their hesitation, develops the self confidence among them, motivates them to face challenges, to take part in different curricular and co-curricular activities. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Conclusion |
Above all, Achievement motivation helps the adolescents not only to adjust with their studies but also helps in Home Adjustment, Social Adjustment, Health Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment and make them balanced person. |
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| Suggestions for the future Study | As this study is directly related to the adolescents, so no doubt it will be helpful to set a mile stone in the field of education. Teachers will be able to trace out the maladjusted students, classroom problems like indiscipline will be decreased. Alongwith the teachers, this study will also be helpful to the administrators and policy makers. They may take necessary steps to make bright future of the nation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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