Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part E (2021)

Abstract
Achievement motivation and adjustment are concerned to cope with real-world situations and are very crucial to all, especially for girls in the present psychosocial and educational set-up of society. Adjustment problems include our home, health, social, and emotional situations. The role of achievement motivation in the life of students can be seen in many areas of their endeavours. Different dimensions of socioeconomic status (like socio-cultural, economic, possessions of goods and services, health, and educational dimensions) and area of residence also have a great impact and role in achievement motivation and adjustment of girl students in different real-world situations. In the present study, it was attempted to study the effect of rural and urban habitation on girl students from Govt. girls’ high schools of different SES contexts with their adjustment problems and achievement motivation. The study was conducted on 200 girl students from the Gaya district (100 rural and 100 urban). Mohsin-Shamshad's Adaptation of Bell’s Adjustment Inventory, Sharma’s Academic Achievement Motivation Test; SES Scale of Kalia & Shahu were used to collect the data. The result shows a significant difference in adjustment problems and achievement motivation of rural and urban and high and low-SES girl students. Urban girl students are high on achievement motivation and better adjusted on different dimensions of the scale in comparison to their rural counterparts. Further, it was also observed that high-SES girl students are better adjusted and high on achievement motivation than their low-SES counterparts.