Research Report No.48
Factors Relating to Adjustment in School Adolescents
by
Oraphin Choochom
Ashara Sucaromana (1992)  
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       The  objectives of this study were divided into three categories  Firstly,  it  aimed  to compare school adolescents according to their  family  and  bio-social backgrounds Secondly it, aimed to investigate  the  relationships  among  Child - rearing practices, self - concepts  and  home  -  environments  with the adjustment of school adolesents.  Thirdly,  it was to study important factors which could influence the adjustment of school adolescents. 
        The  sample  group consisted of 534 Mathayom Suksa I students of  the academic year 1989 from secondary schools is Bangkok Metropolitan  area  by simple random sampling. The instruments used for collecting  data   were  a  student  background  questionnaire,  a  questionnaire  assessing  self  -  concepts, a questionnaire assessing adjustment, a home  -  environment  questionnaire  and  child  -  rearing practices  questionnaire 
        Data  were  analysed  by  using  one - way analysis of Variance,  pearson's   product   moment  Correlation  Coefficient  and  Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis. 
        Results of the study are summarized as follows : 
        1.  The  comparision  of  school  adolescents  according to the  family and bio - social backgrounds yields the following results. 
            1.1  There  was  a difference between the family and bio -  social   background  of  school  adolescents  and  their  ability  in  adjustment.   The  school  adolescents  with  high  family  economic  background could adjust themselves better than the school adolescents  with  low  family  economic background. However when compared to the  school adolescents with middle family economic background, the school  adolescents with high family economic background shown no difference.  By  the  same  token the school adolescents with low family economic  background  shown  no  difference in their adjustment compared to the  school adolescents with middle family economic background. 
            1.2  School  adolescents  from  the  extended family could  adjust themselves better than those from the nucleus family. 
            1.3  There  was  no  significent  difference in adjustment  among  school  adolescents  with different sexes, ages, birth orders,  family sizes, father and mother's levels of education, occupations of  father and mothers. 
        2.  The study of relationships among child - rearing practices,  self  -  concepts,  home  -  environments  and  adjustment  of school  adolescents revealed the following results. 
            2.1  School adolescents with love - oriented and reasoning child  -  rearing practices shown the positive relationship with self  adjustment. 
            2.2  Self - concepts and home - environments were positively  correlate  with  the  ability  in  adjustment  of  school adolescents. 
        3.  The Self concepts were the first important influence factor  in  predicting  the adjustment of school adolescents. The prediction could  reach as high as 42.29%. When added with the second important  factor home - environment, the prediction could be 50.37% 


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