Educational Quest: An Int. J. of Education and Applied Social Sciences Vol 7 l Issue 3 l December 2016 231 Access this article online Publisher Website: http://www.ndpublisher.in DOI: 10.5958/2230-7311.2016.00044.1 Address for correspondence Department of Education, Regional Institute of Education, (NCERT) Ajmer, Rajasthan, India E-mail: msgurjarriea@gmail.com Comparative Study on Adjustment Ability of Special and Normal Adolescents Pawan Kumar and Monu Singh Gurjar Assistant professor in Education, Department of Education, Regional Institute of Education, (NCERT) Ajmer, Rajasthan, India ABSTRACT This paper is concerned to the comparative study on adjustment ability of special and normal adolescents. The present study out of 22 districts of Punjab, one district Ludhiana was selected randomly. The present study, out of 22 districts in Punjab, only one district Ludhiana was selected randomly. Thereafer, 20 special students and 20 normal students of secondary school were selected on purposive basis from that district. A standardized tool was used for the present investigation: Adjustment inventory for school students by A.K.P. Sinha and R.P. Singh (1993) was used by the researcher for collection of Data. The data were analyzed statistically by using Mean, SD and ‘t’-ratio. Keywords: Adjustment ability, Special, Normal Adolescents Man is a social animal. He has a unique sense of belongingness to a social environment. While living as a member of a social group, he has to come into contact with people and situations to which he has sometimes to subdue and on which he has sometimes full control. His smooth living depends upon how well he can atain a degree of inner harmony in his intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships. The concept of adjustment means adaptations of physical environment as well as to social demands. No human can live apart from his physical environment. There is an action and reaction chain going on between the individual and his environment. Then there are social pressure and demands of socialization. To this may be added the individual’s personal demands such as the satisfaction of physiological needs. All these complex functions of the person demands adjustment. Adjustment as a process is of major interest to psychologists who want to understand a person and his behaviour. The way one adjusts himself to his external environment at any point of time depends upon the interaction between the biological factors in growth and his social experiences. The dictionary meaning of the word ‘adjustment’ is to ft, make suitable, adapt, arrange, modify, harmonize or make correspondent. Thus when we make an adjustment between two things, we adapt or modify one or both them to correspond to each