Vol. 8, Issue 4 (2020)

Method: For the purpose of the study, 200 male and female teachers from the state of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. India, were selected as a subject, there age ranged from 25 to 45 years Deva’s Social Adjustment Inventory (SAI) constructed by Dr. R. C. Deva used to obtained level of social adjustment. Deva’s Social Adjustment inventory (SAI) consists of 100 questions which includes items for the assessment of emotional as well as social adjustment. There are also 15 filter items. These items have been designed to yield a ‘Test Dishonesty’ score. If this score exceeds twenty, the responses to other items cannot be relied upon. It is recommended that response of such a person may be rejected. Higher the score, the higher would be the level of social adjustment and vice-versa. Descriptive statistics and Independent‘t’ test statistical technique were used to determine the significance difference between the selected groups. The hypothesis tested at 0.05 level of significance.

Results: The findings of the present study revealed that Female teachers as a whole are found to be highly socially adjusted of Madhya Pradesh. It indicates that the teacher's adjustment may be depended on socio - psychological variables. Degree of job satisfaction and job stress affect the teacher adjustment. Similarly, adjustment of teacher affects the job involvement of teacher. A well adjusted teacher has good job involvement. Social competence, like social adjustment, is often used as an umbrella term to include various aspects of a teacher’s performance in social contexts. If social competence is defined broadly as the ability to engage people in a society and cooperative manner and to be resourceful and achievement oriented (Siantz de Leon, 1997), then well developed social abilities affect virtually all areas of a female teacher’s life working public schools. Adjustment involves a reaction of the person to the demands imposed upon him or how an individual manages to cope with various demands and processes of life. This was also revealed from the present study that Female Teachers working in Public Schools are well adjusted according to the demands & can live smoothly even in stressful and difficult conditions through the process of adjustment.

Conclusion: The significant difference was found between Male and Female Physical Education Teachers working in Schools Madhya Pradesh in relation to the level of social adjustment.