Personal

And Social
Adjustment
Introduction
 Many individual have a desire to attain great
wealth or become extremely popular or
famous, but hardly a few of them attain these.
 Those of them to take their failure realistically
become satisfied with what they have attained
 They can be called well adjusted individual
 But those who are always brooding over the
failure or adopt abnormal means to satisfy their
desire for power or wealth by becoming too
arrogant or day dreamers, etc. Are the person
who have a maladusted personality
Definition
 Adjustment means the modification to
compensate for special condition
 Or
 Adjustment is the interaction between a
person and his environment. How one adjust in
a particular situation depend upon one's
personal characteristics as also the
circumstances of the situation.
 In other words both personal and
environmental factors work side by side in
adjustment
 An individual is adjusted, if he is adjusted to
himself and to his environment
Area Of Adjustment
 Health adjustment
 Emotional adjustment
 Social adjustment
 Home adjustment
 School or professional adjustment
Personal Adjustment
 Personal adjustment is a process of harmony
between individual and his environment.
 The individual purposefully apply effort and
energy not only to accommodate perfectly
within the society and the environment, but
also to fulfill his needs and lead happy social
life.
 The adjustment is highly selective and
specialized process.
 Adjustment of an individual is more dynamic
and capable of readjustment with new
environment and there is a remarkable
mobility in the process of adjustment
Characteristics Of A Well
Adjusted Person
 Basic need are satisfied
 Leads balance life
 Respect self and others
 Aware of one’s own strength and weakness
 Flexible mind-set
 Ability to deal with adverse circumstances
 Realistic perception of the world
 Comfortable with the surrounding
environment
 Absence of fault finding attitude
Social Adjustment
 As social bring we live in a society. We form
opinions about others and other form
opinions about us.
 Everybody wants acceptance and
recognition from and within the society. We
try to behave according to the norms of the
society, so that we can adjust with others
 Social adjustment can be defined as a
psychological process. It frequently involves
coping with a new standards and values in
the society. In psychological terms getting
along with the members of the society as
best as one can is called social adjustment.
Perception And Social
Adjustment
 Impartial perception is needed for social adjustment. In
the process of behavior, example learning, maturation,
sensation, perception and motivation are significant in
our life, because they contribute to the process of
adjustment.
 The way we interact with people depend to a great
extent upon how we perceive them and how we
interpret their behavior.
 The perception about people, what we think, influence
the way we respond to them. If you perceive that the
student is hostile, you are unlikely to interact or adjust
with him.
 Your behavior in a group in certainly different from the
behavior when alone. Group affects an individual's
behavior. The mere presence of others affects our
performance.
 Our social perception of other are initially
based on the information we obtain
about them.
 If it is of course important to have an
accurate knowledge of other before
deciding on the kind of possible
interaction with them.
 Our perception of other’s personalities
and feelings guide us in deciding the way
we respond to them and what sort of
relationship we have with them.
Knowledge about other influence our
adjustment with them.
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