Social-adjustment of Secondary school students in relation to their Gender, Academic achievement and Parent-child relationship.

The main purpose of this study was to see thesocial-adjustment of Secondary school students in relation to their Gender, Academic achievement and Parent-child relationship. The study was conducted on a sample of 200 students of 9th class studying in Government and Private Schools of Jammu district (J&K). Adjustment Inventory constructed and standardized by K. P. Sinha and R. P. Singh (1971),Parent Child Relationship Scale developed and standardized by Nalini Rao (1989) were the tools used to collect data. The collected data was analyzed with the help of ANOVA (Analysis of variance). The results of the present study showed that boys are found socially more adjusted than their counterparts. Social-adjustment is found independent of academic-achievement and parent-child relationship.