Anxiety and adjustment pattern among tribal and non tribal students

Pages: 723-725
Zaki Akhtar (Department of Psychology, Karim City College, Jamshedpur)

The present study is an aimed to find out level of adjustment and anxiety among tribal and non-tribal student. The total samples consist of 184 among 92 tribal students and 92 non-tribal students. The research tool assessing the level of adjustment developed by Bell (1934) (Mohsin & Shamshad adaptation) was used. Sinha Anxiety Scale was administered to find out the level of anxiety. Obtained score were analyzed with the help of t-test and r was applied to check correlation. Result reveled that, there was significant difference between tribal and non-tribal students on adjustment and anxiety. Tribal students possessed more anxiety and adjustment related problems. The results also showed significant of difference on the dimension of home, health, social and emotional adjustment. Further, correlation coefficient signifies the negative relationship between anxiety and adjustment.