Page No.120-129
Srimanta Patra, Narayan Barman and Manikanta Paria
Jadavpur University
The purpose of the study was to see the socio-emotional adjustment of Higher secondary
level students in Coochbehar District, West Bengal. Using a cross-sectional survey
method, data was collected from 213 students with the social and emotional adjustment
Scale namely “Bell’s Adjustment Inventory” developed by R.K. Ojha (1968). Here to
select the sample from the whole population convenient sampling Technique was
followed. Female students possessed higher Socio-emotional adjustment as compared
to male students. Furthermore, students belonging to nuclear families scored higher
than their counterparts belonging to joint families. Social caste ST students have shown
higher socio-emotional adjustment compared to OBC, SC, and General caste students,
respectively. Father Educational qualification-wise, the Illiterate has shown higher
socioemotional adjustment compared to I -VIII, XI-XII, and IX-X. While differences among
Gender and Social Caste were significant(p<0.05); differences among family type and Father Educational qualification were not significant(p>0.05)