Test No.

1 Bell's Adjustment Inventory(BAI)

INTRODUCTION

The term "Adjustment" refers to the behavioral process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs
against obstacles in the environment. Adjustment is very crucial and very important part of
evolutionary process of adaptation reflected through the behavior of humans and animals which
helps them to maintain equilibrium between their various needs and helped them to tackle the
obstacles of the environment. The factors of environment are what triggers the adjustment
behavior of an individual. When any factor of the environment changes the individual shows an
adjustment behavior to best suit their environment. When there is an inability to make a normal
adjustment to some need/stress in the environment, one might have adjustment
disorders/problems and that might lead to various mild as well as severe mental problems. Hence
Adjustment can be summed up as the process of finding and adopting modes of behavior suitable
to the environment of the change in the environment.

PURPOSE

To identify any adjustment issues of a subject using Bell's Adjustment Inventory.

REQUIRED TEST MATERIAL/ EQUIPMENT

The materials used during this test are as follows:

1. Consumable booklet of Bell's Adjustment Inventory

2. Bells Adjustment Inventory Manual
3. General stationery (pen/pencils, paper, calculator)
4. A desk/table and chair

INFORMATION OF THE SUBJECT

Name: Ms. Sujita Nepal

Age: 24
Sex: Female
Residence: Thamel, Kathmandu
Caste: Brahmin
Religion: Hindu
Marital Status: Unmarried
Occupation: Finance Officer
Father’s Occupation: Business
Education: Master's in Business Studies
Monthly Income: Rs. 35,000/-
Physical and Mental condition: Normal
Date: 2nd August 2019

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Place: Subject's Room
TIme: 6 PM

TEST DESCRIPTION

The present Adjustment Inventory was prepared in 1968 by a Ph.D. student, Dr. R.K. Ojha,
while conducting his research under the guidance of the author. Dr. Ojha is retired Head of
Department of Psychology in K.G.K College, Moradabad. The test was published by National
Psychological Corporation, Agra, India.

Scoring:

The inventory is negative inventory hence, when an individual has responded in ‘Yes’ it
indicates their difficulties or adjustment issues in a particular area/ dimension and will score one
mark and when they have responded in ‘No’ it indicates that they do not have such adjustment
issues and will score zero. Therefore, high score on inventory signify poor adjustment whereas
low score signifies better adjustment in different areas and in respect of adjustment taken as a
whole.

Exception:

Some of the statements were found conflicting with the way they scored as per the manual,
therefore the scores were reversed to get the exact results from the test i.e., for a ‘Yes’ response,
it is scored as 0 and for 'No’ response, it is scored as 1. The altered statements are as follows:

Home Dimension: Statement no. 7, 24, 26 and 27

Health Dimension: No alteration
Social Dimension: Statement no. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26,
32 and 33
Emotional Dimension: No alteration

The manual has given four different interpretation tables for four different education groups as:
High School Students, Intermediate Students, Degree Students and Post-Graduate Students.

The subject was in the middle of her Master's Degree so the interpretation table for Post-
Graduate was used. The interpretation table and the interpretation of the subject are shown as
below:

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Interpretation Table:

Interpretation table for Post-Graduate Students

Interpretation Range of Scores
Home Health Social Emotional
Excellent 4 & below Below 1 6 & Below Below 1
Good 5–7 1–3 7–9 1-3
Average 8 - 14 4 – 10 10 – 16 4 – 12
Unsatisfactory 15 – 17 11 – 13 17 – 19 13 – 16
Very Unsatisfactory 18 & above 14 & Above 20 & Above 17 & Above
BAI-o Manual

TEST ADMINISTRATION

The subject was warmly welcomed and placed on the left side of test taker. The subject was
given a brief idea about the test and permission was taken to start the task. After making her
comfortable the subject was given all the required materials and the following instruction was
given.

"The Adjustment Inventory has four parts where each parts have 35 statements. In the Right side
of each statement 'Yes' and 'No' have been given. If you agree with the statement you have to put
a cross sign in the box given below "Yes" and put a cross sign below "No" in case of
disagreement. Please read all the questions thoroughly. Don’t feel any hesitation to ask if there is
any confusion regarding the meaning of the question, the procedure of scoring or any other
matter. The test is normally completed within 10 minutes please but take your time to carefully
score the question. Best of luck."

After giving the instructions, the subject started the test and gave it back after finishing it. During
the test, the subject's behavior, mood patterns were carefully observed. Any confusion regarding
any questions asked were properly answered so that subject felt an ease in completing the whole
test.

After finishing the test, the subject was asked to give an introspective report and was released
after thanking her.

Introspective report: "I was initially nervous to perform the test as I assumed that the questions
will be hard to answer. But they were easier than I expected. The questions were very much
related and I enjoyed the whole process."

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OBTAINED SCORE

The subject filled out the BAI test booklet with her responses and then the scores were
determined as below.

Scoring Table:

Part I Part II Part III Part IV

Area Home Health Social Emotional
Scores 10 9 24 16
Interpretation Average Average Very unsatisfactory Unsatisfactory
BAI-o Consumable booklet

ANALYSIS/ INTERPRETATION

As per the scoring table above, extracted from the BAI-o consumable booklet shows that the
subject obtained the scores which can be interpreted as Average in two areas of adjustment i.e.,
Home and Health Dimension, but has obtained a score which can be interpreted as Very
unsatisfactory in the area of Social Dimension and Unsatisfactory in the area of Emotional
Dimension.

IMPRESSION

On the basis of the interpretation above the subject doesn’t have much problem of adjustment in
the areas of Home and Health dimension but the subject does have an adjustment issue in the
areas of Social and Emotional dimension.