Abstract

BOSQUE FUENTES, Ana Elena del  and  ARAGON BORJA, Laura Edna. Mexican adolescents´ adjustment level. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2008, vol.42, n.2, pp. 287-297. ISSN 0034-9690.

In this work adjustment is considered as a relational and dynamic process among the subject and the environment, in which the individual’s behavior adjustment is expected to be referred to his own desires, preferences and needs; furthermore it is expected that such behavior adjusts to the environment’s circumstances, rules, desires and preferences from the people with whom he interacts. During adolescence, important changes happens in all areas of human beings. In the middle of these changes, adolescents have to develop behaviors that allow them to fit into the different environment in which they dwell; and become satisfied when they can adjust his (her) own behavior to their needs. They may face different problems related to a poor self-esteem, low self-conceit and interaction problems within family and educational context, if they do not get a satisfactory adaptation, which may allowed them to interact properly in the environment in which they develop. In this sense, we focused the present work, toward two major goals: to obtain punctuation norms for the Mexico City and metropolitan area, from the Bell’s Cuestionario de Adaptación para Adolescentes, and to observe significant differences among males and females adolescents and also among different school levels of high school.

Keywords : Adjustment; Adolescence; Evaluation.

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