Assessment of Adjustment among Street Children.

Abstract

Adjustment is a process of maintaining a balance between the needs such as physical, social, psychological and the circumstances that influence the satisfaction of these needs, and it is a continuous process to produce harmonious relationship between a man and his environment adjustment during emotions lead to a normal behavior, whereas maladjustment leads to abnormal behavior among street children and increase risk of vulnerability. The present study was conducted on selected street children belonging to the age group of 4 to 16 years who were segregated into three age groups 4-8, 8-12- and 12-16 through random sampling from Urban areas of lucknow. Adjustment inventory by Srivastava & Tiwari (1985) to assess the level of adjustment was administered and compared across gender. The data was collected, coded, tabulated and analyzed using Anova test to assess statistical significance of data. It was found that there was significant influence of occupation of the respondent’s father and also mother’s occupation on the emotional adjustment of street children. The results of the study confirms that differences in level of adjustment  are due to parent‘s occupation Assessment of Adjustment among Street Children.