Development And Validation of a Scale for the Assessment of Adjustment Issues in First Year Students

Abstract

This study was aimed to develop a valid and reliable scale for assessment of adjustment that students face during transition from school to college. The transitions from school to college are a major change in early adulthood life, attending new institute is a chance to learn and experience new ways and opportunity for psychosocial development. College life is a new environment for students and it takes time for adjusting in it. For the construction of indigenous scale of adjustment problems interviews with open ended questions were conducted with 30 individual first year college girls in one to one session. After expert validation 36 items scale was constructed with 4 point rating scale. In this current research, Principle Component Analysis with Varimax Rotation was performed on 36 items and 2 factor solution was extracted named academic problems and social problems. This scale has satisfactory internal consistency was .70 and concurrent validity was .58. Universities and colleges should regularly administer the developed scale to assess the adjustment level of first-year students and identify those who may need psychological or academic support.