Generational Differences in Adjustment Problems Among Early, Middle-Aged, and Late Adults

To investigate the generational differences in adjustment problems among early, middle-aged, and late Adults. It was a cross-sectional research design. The 300 adult participants' data were gathered from Gujrat and Jhelum. The sample selection was executed through convenience sampling, i.e., a non-probability sampling technique. In the demographic sheet, the age of participants was requested, whereas psychological adjustment was examined by the Scale of Adjustment for Adults by Naz, Bano & Leghari. In all three groups of adults, i.e., early, middle-aged, and late adults, the number of participants was the same. Most of the adults encounter fewer adjustment issues, n=195(65%) of adjustment problems. The Scale of Adjustment for Adults gives the cut-off score of 71 or more. Anyone who scored above 71 was considered maladjusted or not adjusted. About 21% (n=63) were maladjusted. The comparison of three adult groups was done by One-way Analysis of Variance. The result specified a difference in the psychological adjustment issues confronted by different adult groups. The Means and SD of the three groups indicated that early adulthood (64.85±10.35) has more adjustment issues than late (62.07±10.07) and middle adulthood (60.59±9.35). The study findings indicated that adults had a low level of adjustment problems, whereas the prevalence of adjustment problems was 21%. Furthermore, the three groups of adulthood experience different psychological adjustment issues.