Construction and Normalization of Academic Adjustment of Students

The present study aimed to construct a test to assess students’academic adjustment. A set of 152 items were generated with six subscales including type of university, field of study, social and interpersonal skills, emotional and academic adjustments, self-discovery, and objective oriented. Four hundred and eleven college students were selected by stratified sampling from city of Ghazvin. The participants completed the 152 items questionnaire. The results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis indicated that items within each subscale were highly correlated with each other. Additionally, the items within each subscale had low correlation with items of other subscales which indicated high independence of subscales.The reliability of the test using Cronbach’s Alpha was 0.94. The final version of the test consisted of 138 items after removing items with low and double loading.