The present study was conducted on the social adjustment and academic achievement of preuniversity students in Mangalore taluk. The main objective of this study is to find out the relationship between social adjustment and academic achievement of pre-university students from rural and urban areas. The study was carried out on 320 students belonging to rural and urban regions of Mangalore taluk. For data collection, a simple random sampling technique was used. The researchers prepared and validated a questionnaire consisting of 45 questions. The collected data was analysed using Pearson’s product-moment correlation method. The study reveals that there is a significant positive relationship between the social adjustment and academic achievement scores of rural and urban preuniversity students.
Anitha Ch (Sun,) studied this question.