Adjustment and Academic Achievement in Adolescents

A historical perspective of adjustment problems of adolescents helps to place today’s adolescents in proper focus as records concerning the status of adolescents and education across the countries have been pieced together. Since prehistoric days the status of an adolescent in society has been varied with the cultural concept of how a young person should be prepared to assume adult responsibilities though he has been formally studied for a brief span only since the beginning of the present century.