Manual

for
Adjustment Inventory for
School Students (AISS)

A. K. P. Sinha
Ex-Professor of Psychology
Ravi Shankar University
RAIPUR
AND
R.P. Sngh
Professor and Head
Department of Education
Patna University, PATNA.

1993

&st.1971 Phone 1364926

NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CORPORATION
4/230, KACHERI 6HAT, AGRA-282 004 (U.P.) INDIA
MANUAL
for
for School Students (AISS)
Adjustmeat Iaventory
for use with Hindi
Inventory has been designed
The Adjustm2nt to segregate well
The inventory seeks
students of India.
knowing school group 14 to 18 years)
from poorly
students
school (age Social and
adjusted secondary Emotional,
in the three areas of adjustment:
adjusted students
Educational.
problems of school
indicating thc sigaifican1
A list of 100 questions The questions were
to be
areas were prepared.
students in the threc to 25 judges, all of
This list was presented
answered in Yes' or No'. or vocational
counselling,
were psychologists engaged in teaching, included
wbom
each item in term of
its merit for being
guidance work, to judge retained about wbich the judges
such items were
ia the inventory. Only elimination of 12 out of
100 items.
were unanimous.
This led to the adminis-
work of item analysis,
the inventory was
Before undertaking the the-language. dificulties,
if
100 students to remove
tered to a sample of cearly the diferent
items.
them in uderstanding
any, reported by
Item Analys of
administered on two groups
88 items was
The list of remaining consisted of 100 such
studeats
B. Groop A
subjects-8roup A and group students judged
well-adjusted Group B of 100
and
who were judged to be
well.
knew them very
a group of
five teacbers who
to be poorly adjusted by the responses of the
two groups
was applied
to compare which did
Chi-square test of a total of 88 items
item. Fourteen out eliminated from
the
in respect of each significantly were of
the two groups to a group
not discriminate retained were
administered
scores for
test. The 74
items that were
The d i s t r i b a t i o a s of
distribations for
school students of Patna, for normality.
370 secondary of it were tested
and for the three parts distribution,
the whole inventory significantly from
a normal
did not depart on the inventory
As the s c o r e s the total scores The significanco of
biserial correlations
of each item (1) with The sigaiticanco or
computed.
total s c o r e s w e r e for retaining
and (2) with tbe a r e a s the criterion
w a s fixed as The final
at 001 level
biserial correlation
of 14 items out of Thehaal
74.
This led to the climinatian
an tem.
in each arca of adjustment
of 60 items, 20 items
consisted
i nventory
3
Sample inal form, was administered to a
The 60 item inveptory, in its and 750 girls)
randomly selected representative sample of 1950 (1200 boys
of 40 schools of Bibar. The dislributions
from ciass IX to XI grade pupils
applying Cbi-square techaique.
of scores were tested for normality by
Srom normality.
The distributions did not depart sigaificantly
Reliability
Coefficient of reliability was determined by (i) Split-half method,
the
(ii) K-R formula-20. Table 1 gives
ii) Test retest- method, and diferent"
test and of sub-tests by
reliability coeficieots of the total
methods.
TABLE 1
Coefficicnts of the Inventory
Relfability
Educational Toral
Emotional Social
Metbod uscd
093 0-96 095
0-94
1. 3plit-half U-90 0.93 093
0-96
2. Test-Tetest 6 0-94
0-92 0-92
3. K-R formula-20
Validity were determined for each item
coeficients
In item-analysis
validity retained wbich
and only such items
were
correlation method and
biserial (i) total score
by correlation with both the
criteria
biserial
yielded being 001.
sigaiicant level were
(ii) a r e a score,
the three areas of the inventory
Inter-correlations among Table 2.
matrix is being presented in
correlation
calculated. The
TABLE 2
Three Areas
Correlation Matrix of the
Areas 19
20
I. Bmotional
24
20
II. Social 24
19
IL. Educational scores
validated by correlating inventory
was also onthe data
inventory This was done
The Hostel Superintendent. Higher
the
with ratings by in the hostel of Patna Collegiate
Multipurpose
a
of 60 pupils living rated the pupils on
Superintendent
School. The Hostel Poor, and Very Poor
Secondary Good, Average, of
namely, Excellent, coeficient
fivo point scale,
moment
The product
their adjustments. ratings was
in respect of s c o r e s and
superintendent's
between inventory
correlation
obtained to be 0-51.
4
Nonms were computed for both males and femalk1 ofah
ile norms
Social
Educationa
Bducational) of idjostment
and jastmeat
Table 3
(Emotional,
three
areas
whole inventory. Table 3 and 4 gve the
also for the
the
as
separately and females respectively.
for male
peroentiles
TABLE 3
Percentile Norms
for Males
Social Educational Total
Emotional
Percentiles
9-88 995 26'89
9 98 23-41
Po 9-16 9-11
9-10 21-34
Poo 8-24 8-34
8:11 7-40 19-36
Pr 7-21 7-38
Po 6-58 6-48 17-74
6-18 16-06
Pso 6-00 5-98
5-91 4:82 14-32
Pe 4:42 4:91
Ps 3.75 3-33 1177
3-11 8 82
Ps0 2-70 2-02
Pse 201
TABLE 4
Females
Percentile Norms for
Educational Total
Percentiless Emotionnal Social
9-95 2167
980 9:91
Po 8-81 23-89
8:31 8-45 2163
Pe 7-55 7-67
745
P 6-91 6-98
19-40
6 H8 17-78
Peo 6-31
612 6-27
Pso 5-62 513
1615
Po 5-11 1453
4:31 462
Pso 4:21 11-81
3-08 3-61
Pso 3 11 870
2:31 2-71
Pio 2 00
in
rdance
The subjects can be classified into five categories
with the raw scores obtained by them on the inventory. The five
Rdfiwhich
wbich
P'
categories of adjustment are, 'A' which stands for excellent,stands.for
which
stands for good, C' which stands for average, D ' adjustmen
ents.
asatisfactory, and E' wlhich stands for unsatisfactory mal
very
Table 5
was done by dividing the base lind o
eurve Oization
into five equal uoits, each unit being equal to Table
1-2 6 sD
show
Table 6
presents the clussification of total-scores
and
adjustment for
II ,

E E
. ..
7
astructions for Scoring
Inventory can be scored by hand only. For any answer indicative
Table
of adjustment Zero is given, otherwise a score of one is awarded.
8 shows the key resvnse indicative of lack of adjustment.
The inventory is designed to be an aid in counselling school studenota
to of the
of age group 1-18 years whose persoaal problems pertain aay
test. The use of Deonagari letters B
A, and
three areas included in the
to Emotional adjustment, Social adjustment and
C corresponding
Educational adjustment enables the test user to discover readily questions
relating to each measure. The total score indicates the general adjustment
status.

TABLE8
sOCIAL (a EDUCATIONAL (T)
EMOTIONAL (
tem No. Response Item No. Respoase Item No. Response
indicative indicative indicative
of lack of of lack of
of lack of
adjustment adjustment adjustment
Yes Yes 3 Yes
Yes 5 Yes Yes
Yes 8 Yes Yes
Yes 11 No 12 No
10
Yes 14 Yes 15 Yes
13
Yes 17 No 18 No
16
Yes 20 No 21 Yes
19
23 No 24 No
22 Yes
Yes 26 No 27 Yes
25
29 Yes 30 No
28 Yes
32 No 33 No
31 Yes
35 Yes 36 Yes
34 Yes
38 No 39 Yes
37 Yes
41 No 42 Yes
40 Yes
44 No 45 Yes
43 Yes
Yes 47 Yes 48 No
46
50 No 51 No
49 Yes
No 54 No
52 Yes 53
55 56 No 57 No
Yes
58 No 60 No
Yes 59