Adjustment Challenges: A Study of Hostel and Day-scholar Students

Abstract

Adjustment plays a crucial role in shaping an individual’s academic and social experiences, particularly among students living in different environments. This study explores the differences in adjustment patterns between hostellites and day-scholar girls, focusing on their emotional, health, family, social, and educational adjustments. Hostel life presents unique challenges and opportunities, influencing independence, peer interactions, and coping mechanisms, whereas non-hostellites experience a different set of familial and social influences. To understand these variations, the study aims to provide insights into the differences in their level of adjustments of both groups. The study’s effective sample consisted of 100 adolescent girls, including 50 hostel students and 50 day-scholars. Global Adjustment Scale (Vohra,1993) was employed for the data collection. The results of the study revealed that day scholars significantly revealed better adjustment with respect to all five dimensions.