Authors : Mohammad Reza Karamipour and Suna Alami
Abstract: This research aims to study the relationship between the components of adjustment and the academic performance of the first-grade high school students of Zanjan city of Iran. The predictor variables include the components of educational and social adjustment of the high school students and the criterion variable of the research is the grade point average of the students. The sample of the research included 375 male and female students of the first-grade high school students who were studying in 2013-14. The sampling was performed based on (relative) stratified random sampling method and the sample was selected based on Cochran’s method of determining the sample size. Adjustment Inventory for School Student (AISS) was used for collecting the needed data. the collected data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient statistical method and ANOVA variance analysis test and t-test of independent groups. The results of this research show that there is a positive significant relationship between the educational and social adjustment and the educational achievement of the students. There is no significant relationship between the social adjustment of male and female students, though the male students are more educationally adjusted than the female students; while the educational performance of the female students is higher than the educational performance of the male ones.
Mohammad Reza Karamipour and Suna Alami, 2016. Relationship Between the Adjustment and Academic Performance of the 1st Grade High School Students of Zanjan. International Business Management, 10: 3492-3501.