College Adjustment And Social Support Of Adolescent Girls

Abstract

Transition from school to college often causes much stress for the most adolescent girls.  In the new environment of college life, girls often face various social, emotional and academic demands, each of which could create stressful situation for most of them. All these can lead to specific problems in college adjustment. So the present study aimed to find out the correlation between social support and college adjustment among adolescent girls. Participants were 100 college adolescent girls from the randomly selected four colleges of Amritsar. The participants filled out Social Support Scale by Dhull & Godara, (2016) and Adjustment Inventory by Dr. V. K. Mittal, (1974). t test,and Pearson correlation were run in SPSS-22 to analyze the data. The results showed that college adjustment has significant positive relationship with the dimensions of Social Support i. e. Family Support, Friend Support, and Others Support. The findings of the study also showed that there exists significant difference in college adjustment and all the dimensions of social support between urban and rural adolescent girls. Findings suggest that urban adolescent girls score higher on area of college adjustment and social support in comparison to rural adolescent girl, showing better college adjustment of urban adolescent girls.

Locale exhibited its significant effect on college adjustment and social support.