Emotional Maturity among Adolescents: A Study of Senior Secondary School Students

Abstract

The present research has been designed to study emotional maturity which is an important aspect of our daily life. Directly or indirectly it is affecting everyone living in a society. The study aimed to find out the significant difference in emotional maturity among senior secondary school students with respect to their gender (i.e. male and female); type of schools (i.e. government and private); streams (i.e. science, arts and commerce); type of families (i.e. joint and nuclear); social category (i.e. general and scheduled castes): and type of locality (i.e. rural and urban). The Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS) by Dr. Yashvir Singh and Dr. Mahesh Bharagava (2012) was employed to study emotional maturity. The sample consisted of 120 senior secondary school students, out of which 60 were males and 60 were females. Collected data was analyzed through mean, standard deviation and t-test. The results revealed that there was no significant difference in emotional maturity among senior secondary school students in relation to their gender (male and female); type of school (i.e. government and private); stream (i.e. science and arts) and locality (i.e. rural and urban). There was a significant difference in the emotional maturity among senior secondary school students in relation to their type of family (i.e. joint and nuclear) and social category (general and scheduled castes).