Level of Adjustment between Outstation and Local College Students

A METROPOLITAN! What more could a child belonging to a small town could ask for? For him/her, it’s a place of dreams and possibilities, which one could ever hope of living. With developing trend of pursuing higher education outside the birthplace, Urban Indian students set out in major college cities. Such areas bring with themselves the concerns that every person has in terms of adjustment such as home/family adjustment, health adjustment, social adjustment and emotional adjustment such students; adjust as they experiment with newfound freedom and responsibilities. Thus, adjustment is a relationship between man and his surroundings. The primary aim of this project was to understand the level of adjustment between outstation and local students. 90 students (45 outstation and 45 local students) completed the questionnaire for the variables of the study. The questionnaire consisted bell adjustment inventory. The results indicated that there is a significant difference in level of adjustment between outstation and local students.