College Adjustment Issues and Life Satisfaction amongst Students Living with Family and Out-Station Students in Delhi

Abstract

: Every student passing out from high school and transiting to college requires some kind of adjustment, which may be big or small. Some may especially have more challenges to deal along with stresses of a new environment i.e. college. College freshman are confronted with challenges starting from living apart from parents and friends in the case of some students (here the outstation), adjusting to the academic unit, taking daily-life responsibilities, and developing a new set of social relationships with peers and faculty (Henton, Lamke, Murphy, & Haynes, 1980). This study aims to assess the college adjustment issues and its correlation with life satisfaction among students living with family and outstation students in Delhi. A null hypothesis was proposed that there would be no significant difference between students living with family and outstation students in terms of college adjustment issues. It was also hypothesized that there would be a negative correlation between life satisfaction and college adjustment issues for both the groups. The sample size selected was 74 from Delhi in the age range of 18-25 years where 36 were students living with family and 38 were outstation students. College Adjustment Scale (CAS,Anton & Reed, 1991) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener et.al, 1985) were used to collect data. The result indicates that there was significant difference on different dimensions of college adjustment for students living with parents in Delhi and outstation students. College adjustment issues were found to be negatively-correlated with life satisfaction in college students.