Construction and Validation of Adjustment Inventory

Abstract

The word, "Adjustment" has been derived from the Latin Word "Stringer", which means to draw tight. The term is used to refer to hardship, strain, adversity or affliction. Various terms have been synonymously used with environment such as anxiety, frustration, conflict, pressure, and so on. Every human being has his/her own understanding of environment, because all demands of adaptability do evoke the stress phenomenon. A person makes efforts to adjust himself somehow in his environment. In these efforts sometimes he achieves full success and sometimes only partial. On achieving partial success a person tries to find other means of adjustment. When he fails in his effort he does not find himself adjusted. In this situation, according to Chaube (1985), abnormality appears in his behavior. Abnormality points out towards some mental illness or worry.