Maureen Ebanga Tanyi

The Student's Adjustment Inventory Manual Maureen Ebanga Tanyi

Three issues did come into play in my mind that spurts me into writing this Student's Adjustment Inventory Manual (SAIM): One the lack of concern of the educators in Cameroon for those imparting basic moral behaviour. Two the increasing prevalent of immoral behaviour amongst school children and thirdly, and the most important is the non-availability of the counsellor's work tool or behavioural test. That is the lack of a behavioural instrument based on the socio-cultural background of the Cameroonian students that can be used to screen, diagnose, discriminate and measure the extent of children's behavioural problems with certainty. This inventory is capable of identifying children behaviour in four different areas namely; personal, academic, social and emotional behaviours. Thus it is a personality inventory that counsellors should use to identify, measure the differentiate types of behaviours that children exhibit in schools from which therapy could be given. It also discriminates between adjusted and maladjusted children and even show the extent and area of students behaviour deficit. The SAI is amongst the few psychological instruments (Like Bakere student's problem inventory) that have taken cognisance of the cultural back ground of African children because it has been constructed and validated in Nigeria and Cameroon and found to be worthy. The SAI is able to discriminate between the behaviour of the European and the African and show the extent of each of their differences. The Student's Adjustment Inventory Manual (SAIM ) is the only African bilingual manual and the only psychological tool for Cameroonian educators. It can also be used for screening professional personnel like the military, medical, Judicial and teachers..etc. SAIM content two sets of items and 2 systems of ratings; self and other -ratings to check the 'response set' of the rattee.