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Shabir Ahmad Bhat ¹, Anoop Beri ¹

Affiliations
1 Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, IN

Abstract

The aim of present research is to evaluate the disparity among social adjustment and job performance of college teachers on the basis of gender and to examine the effect of social adjustment on job performance. In this exploratory research three hypotheses were formulated to guide the present study. The subjects of present study were 108 college teachers both public and private who were administered two research instruments namely Social Adjustment Inventory & Job Performance Scale developed by R. C. Deva (2011) & Goodman and Svyantek's (1999) respectively to report collected data and analysis was conducted by SPSS 21 software employing independent t-test and regression analysis at .05 & .01 level of significance. The results of the analysis showed social adjustment and job performance of college teachers don't differ significantly on the basis of gender, also results reveal a significant positive relationship between social adjustment and job performance. Further results revealed social adjustment significantly predicts job performance with a magnitude of 73.3% of variance. Following these conclusions social adjustment of the college teachers must be studied comprehensively, so that their performance gets enhanced.

Keywords

Social Adjustment, Job Performance, Analytical Study.

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Jaswinder Kaur ¹, Anoop Beri ²

Affiliations
1 Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, IN
2 C. T. Intuitions, Jalnadhar, Punjab, IN

Abstract

In the present era, life evolution increased exposure and effects students with extensively recognized issues and stressors. The study aimed to (1) measure the multi factors of perceived stress among students, and (2) development and validation of students' perceived stress scale. UG and PG students were randomly selected from two universities of Punjab (India). The result of EFA revealed eight factors consist 28 items of the Students' Perceived Stress Scale (SPSs). The SPSs has high content, construct and intrinsic validity and it has high internal consistency (0.887) alpha (α) for overall scale; 0.777 α for positive items; and 0.813 α for negative items of SPSs; 0.905 split half reliability and 0.815 test retest reliability. The present scale comprehensively covers the concept of Students' Perceived Stress and shows satisfactory reliability and validity and distinguished that the SPSs is appropriate for students.

Keywords

Development, Validation, Students, Perceived Stress, Scale.

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