Abstract
Adolescence is a transition period in which many changes take place. It may be physical, psychological or emotional changes. During this stage, they look for autonomy from their parents and like to take independent decisions with regard to their education, living matters, Future, career etc. The main objective of the study was to see the difference in adjustment and happiness of higher secondary school boys and girls. The sample consisted of 60 students (30 Boys, 30 Girls). Tests used were Subjective Happiness Scale of Lyubomirsky, S., & Lepper, H. (1999) and Adjustment Inventory for school students (AISS) by A.K.P Sinha and R.P Singh (1971). After the data collection raw score were analysed using t test. Results revealed that the girls have a better adjustment than boys. There is a significant relationship between the total School adjustment of Girls and boys.
Highlights
Adolescence is a transition period in which many changes take place
The result shows that there is no significant difference in Home, School and Emotional adjustment of boys and girls secondary school student
Basu (2012) conducted a study on Adjustment of Secondary School Students .The findings of the present study reveal that there exist highly significant differences between the adjustment of secondary school students when compared on the basis of gender, type of family structure and medium of instruction in school
Summary
Emotion is the current of energy that are within us. Emotion may be defined as the stirred up an organism involving internal and external changes in the body. One such study was by Wang et al (2008) who used a sample of 390 students in their study They looked at uncertainty orientation in Chinese children: Relations with school and psychological adjustment and found that girls had higher scores on academic achievement, distinguished studentship and self-perceptions and lower scores on teacher rated learning problems than boys. Another study in which girls performed better than boys was by Prakash and Coplan (2007) who used a sample of 929 children out of which 62.4% were males while 37.65 were females They studied the socio emotional characteristics and school adjustment of socially withdrawn children in India. They found that boys were rated with lower academic scores than girls. Findings are inconsistent with the results indicated by Mehon et al (2005) that there were no significant gender differences in happiness between adolescent boys and girls
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