Study of Correlation between Adjustment and Environmental Awareness in High School Students of Assam (India)

摘要

There are many regions in India that are very beautiful and attractive, Assam is one of them. Assamese race is a composite whole of people belonging to different racial classes like Austrics, Mongolians and Aryans. During the reign of British in India, people from different states of India like Bihar, UP, West Bengal, Rajasthan and neighbouring country Nepal came and settled. The present study is done for finding correlation in adjustment in home, society emotional and health with the environmental awareness of the peoples. The present study has been done by descriptive survey method. Data is collected with the help of Bell's Adjustment Inventory prepared by Dr. R. K. Ojha and environment awareness scale prepared by the author himself. Mean, median, mode, standard deviation, skewness and Pearson's correlation coefficient is used as statistical tool for the analysis of data. The present study reveals that there is no correlation in adjustment in home, emotional and health with the environmental awareness. But there is existence of low correlation between social adjustment and environmental awareness. It shows that it is society which inculcates the culture of environment protection just like the other customs and beliefs of society.