ABSTRACT

 
Article : CONSTRUCTION AND STANDARDIZATION OF A TOOL FOR MEASURING PERSONALITY ADJUSTMENT
Author Name : M. Pavan Kumar and Dr.D.Baskaran
Abstract : The Present Study is an attempt to construct and standardize a tool for measuring the adjustment behavior realties of individual teacher in different dimensions, which include self adjustment, family adjustment, work place adjustment and societal adjustment. A pilot study among 100 teachers including 50 male and 50 female teachers was conducted in kancheepuram District to establish reliability and validity of the tool. The reliability scores for difference eliminations via, self adjustments, Family adjustment, work place adjustment and societal adjustment were found to be 0.789, 0.823, 0.906 and 0.870 respectively. Content validity was established getting opinions of the experts and scholars in the field of education. Percentile norms of the tool was also planned well to apprise the scores of personality adjustment inventory (PAI) of teachers. The tool contains 60 items including 26 positive items and 34 Negative items. The minimum score of the inventory is 60 and maximum score is 300.
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