Question-  Enumerate briefly the characteristics of a ‘well-adjusted’ person.

Answer-

Here you must be very clear in the your mind as regards the criteria of adequacy of adjustment. No universal criteria can be set for all times to come because criteria involve values judgement which differ from culture to culture and from generation to generation within the same culture. Four criteria have been evolved by psychologists to judge the adequacy of adjustment. They are as follows :

(1) Physical health : The individual should be free from physical ailments like headache, ulcers, indigestion and impairment of appetite. These symptoms in individual have sometimes psychological origin and may impair his physical efficiency.

(2) Psychological comfort : One of the most important facts of adjustment is that individual has no psychological diseases as obsession, compulsion, anxiety and depression etc. These psychological diseases if occur excessively cause to seek professional advice.

(3) Work efficiency : The person who makes full use of his occupational of social capacities, may be termed as well adjusted in his social set up.

(4) Social acceptance : Everybody wants to be socially accepted by other persons. If a person obeys social norms, beliefs and set of values, we may call him well adjusted but if he satisfies his needs by antisocial means then he is called maladjusted. But you see that societies differ in deciding the universally acceptable criteria of good behaviour, for example, in our country smoking and drinking are supposed to be antisocial but there are societies where these activities are quite normal for social adjustment.

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