Open AccessFighting Behaviour and Adjustment Patterns of Higher Secondary School Students
Author(s) -
V. Ramaprabou
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of indian psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-3429
pISSN - 2348-5396
DOI - 10.25215/0403.152
Subject(s) - data collection , psychology , mathematics education , sampling (signal processing) , scale (ratio) , medical education , statistics , mathematics , geography , medicine , engineering , cartography , filter (signal processing) , electrical engineering
The present investigation was undertaken to study the effect of fighting behaviour on adjustment patterns. For this 75 Higher Secondary School students studying in various schools of Puducherry were approached using convenient sampling method. Adjustment Inventory for School Students constructed and standardized by Sinha and Singh (1995) and Fighting subscale of Illinois Bully Scale developed and standardized by Espelage and Holt (2001) was used for data collection. Analysis was done by using one-way ANOVA. Findings of the study revealed that fighting behaviour has significant effect on the adjustment patterns of the students.