ABSTRACT

K.C Panda in a trend report on “Research in Psychology of Education” NCERT writes that no rigorous methodology and techniques have been evolved to study factors affecting delinquency. The report further reads no serious attempt has been made to study delinquency in relation to various psycho-social variables. The investigators   found that the research that has been carried in this direction has been in piece meals. Many people have their individual opinion on the factors responsible for delinquency. The need of the hour was to generate/pool sufficient data on delinquency with the help of standardized constructed tools. The investigators worked on the problem Personal And Social Adjustment of Potential Delinquents And Non-Delinquents of District Srinagar ; the findings shall  help the clinical psychologists, teachers, parents, students and future researchers interested in delinquency to reflect and chalk out the pragmatic and effective intervention strategies to deal with the problem of delinquency.