Original Research Article
Year: 2016 | Month: January-March | Volume: 1 | Issue: 01 | Pages: 49-53
A Comparative Analysis of Different Social Adjustment Variables
among Retired Old Aged Women and Men
Pintu Sil
Assistant
Professor, State Institute of Physical Education for Women, Hastings House,
Alipore, Kolkata, India.
ABSTRACT
The old aged men and women are
facing adjustment problems in the important spheres of their social life. The
purpose of the present study was to find out the magnitude of different social
adjustments variables among old age women and men and compare them between two
genders. A total of 50 old aged people were randomly selected for the study
among them 28 was men and 22 were women. Their age was in between 60 to 80
years. Different dimensions of social adjustments were the criterion in this
study. Shamsad-Jasbir Old-age Adjustment Inventory (SJOAI, 1995) was used to
measure the variables. Mean and standard deviation were used as descriptive
statistics and t-test was used to analyze the mean difference between old age
men and women. All statistical analyses were done using standard statistical
software. Only 0.05 level of confidence was considered in this study. Result
revealed that the old age men were in better position in health, emotional and
financial aspect than women and all these difference were statistically
significant. On other side old age women had better position in home, social
and marital aspect of social adjustment than old age men but except marital
status all mean difference were statistically insignificant. Overall social
adjustment for men was significantly better than old age women. From the
findings it was concluded that both retired old age women and men had lower level
of social adjustment (below 45 percentile) and old age men was in superior
position than women.
Key words: Social Adjustment, Old age women and men, Retired family life.