Personality, readjustment and stress of migrant students

Pages: 328-330
Anjali Kedari (Department of Psychology, Abeda Inamdar Senior College, Pune)
Shobhana Abhyankar (Department of Psychology, Fergusson College, Pune, Maharashtra)

The awareness that migrating for gaining education may bring about wellness and enhanced quality is reflected in the exponentially increasing number of young adults migrating for higher education. Migration, being a process of change, has an impact on physical, psychological and academic life. Often these changes are so drastic that the students face many challenges in completing their education. Several factors are involved in the process of readjustment as well as that of health and well being of migrant students. Out of these factors personality, stress and readjustment of migrant students were selected. A sample of 210 migrant students, age ranging from 18-22 years (mean age = 20.4 years), pursuing non professional courses from various colleges in Pune city was selected. Tools used to test hypothesis were NEO-FFI, Stress Symptoms scale and Readjustment Scale. Neuroticism has significant positive correlation with readjustment (r = .313, p < .01) as well as that with stress symptoms (r = .313, p < .01). Extraversion has a significant negative relationship with readjustment that (r = -.280, p < .05). The rest of the Personality factors, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness do not have significant correlations with readjustment. Readjustment and Stress symptoms have a significant positive relationship (r = .600, p < .01).