Abstract
HIV positive children are discriminated and stigmatised by the society . They are deprived of one or more necessities of life. These children are left helpless, abandoned, neglected by the parents/ caregivers due to social, economic and personal reasons like gender, domicile, age, etc. In this context they may develop and face a lot of psychosocial adjustmental problems. Objectives of the present study are formulated as: 1) To study the level of psychosocial adjustment of children living with HIV/ AIDS and non-HIV/AIDS; 2) To study the psychosocial adjustment among boys and girls living with HIV/AIDS; 3) To study the psychosocial adjustment among rural and urban children living with HIV/AIDS. For this 800 children were selected as participants; among them 400 were living with HIV/AIDS and 400 were non-HIV/AIDS. The selected children were measured on adjustment inventory.The findings indicated that the children living with HIV/AIDS were having higher social, emotional and educational adjustment problems than children living with non-HIV/AIDS. Further, girls and rural children living with HIV/AIDS were having statistically higher social and emotional adjustment problems than boys and urban children.
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