A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON ADJUSTMENT ABILITY OF SPECIAL AND NORMAL ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

There has been a continuous struggle between the needs of the individual and the external forces since times immemorial. Those of us who can adopt or adjust to the needs of changing condition can live happily and successfully while others either vanishes lead miserable lives or prove a nuisance to the society. The process is continuous. It starts at one’s birth and goes on without stop till ones death A person as well as his environment is constantly changing as also are his needs in accordance with demand of changing external environment. Consequently the process or terms of an individual adjustment can be expected to change from situation to situation. The concept of adjustment is as old as human race on earth. Systematic emergence of this concept starts from Darwin’s (1859) theory of evolution. In those days, the concept was purely biological and he used the term adaptation, but psychologist’s see the term of adjustment for varying conditions of social or interpersonal relation in the society