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How Children Learn Personal and Social Adjustment by Carolyn Tryon & William E. Henry - 1950We may think of problems of personal-social adjustment as the resultants of two sets of forces. There are those forces which emerge from the individual himself—his purposes, desires, and needs; and there are forces which derive from the social world in which he lives. Each person experiences these as the demands, expectancies, and pressures of his environment. There is probably no moment in anyone's life when, to a greater or less degree, these two sets of dynamic forces are not interacting—even in our sleep we dream. Adjustment then cannot ever (after infancy) be a matter of simple, direct gratification of impulses and needs. It becomes a matter of integrating one's own needs and purposes with the purposes of the social world in which we live.To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below: | This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 49, No. 1. |
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