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Emotional Maturity of Adolescents in Relation to their
Intelligence
Ms Silvy
JRF QUALIFIED& RESEARCH SCHOLAR
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INTRODUCTION
Man is born just as all creatures with
physical character and become human
gradually through association with his
fellows – every living creature is in fact a
sort of lock whose wards and springs
presuppose special forms of key – which
keys however are not born attached to locks,
but are sure to be found in the world near by
as life goes on.
EMOTION
Emotions are recovery experiences
that communicate across human systems.
They can be distorted or disassociated
according to values and beliefs. They
provide motivation and inspiration to retreat,
or to excel. It is a special kind of intense
subjective experience consisting of strong
feeling tones.
According to Plutchik (1970) “An
emotion may be a patterned bodily reaction
of either destruction, reproduction,
incorporation, orientation, protection,
rejection or exploration or some
combination of these, which is brought
about by a stimulus.”
MATURITY
Maturity means complete physical
and mental growth or the state of adulthood.
But in reality to be mature does not
necessarily mean just a fully grown up
individual, it is a combination of many
things that includes age, awareness,
intelligence, decision making, ability and
more. The Oxford Dictionary defines the
word ‘Maturity’ as deliberateness of action,
mature consideration, fullness or perfection
of natural development, state of being
complete, perfect, ready and so on.
EMOTIONAL MATURITY
Emotional maturity is the ability to
bear tension. Other marks are an
indifference towards certain kinds of stimuli
that affect the individual and they develop
moodiness and sentimentality. Besides, an
emotionally mature person persists in the
capacity for fun and recreation. They enjoy
both play and responsible activities and keep
them up to a proper balance.
INTELLIGENCE
In general intelligence is the ability
of an individual to perceive the right things
in right place at the right time. It is the
ability to learn from experience and to deal
affectively with the task involving
abstractions. So, intelligence is the capacity
and rational constructive thinking directed to
the attainment of some end.
According to Wecshler (1943)
Intelligence is the aggregate or global
capacity of an individual to act purposefully,
to think rationally and to deal affectively
with the environment”.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
PROBLEM
Today is the era of modernization
with the rapid development in all walks of
life problems have also multiplied in that
proportion. The rapid urbanization and
industrialization has made mans life busy
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and fast. The modernization causes stress,
depression, anxiety and emotional
disturbance. Emotional maturity is
influenced by interest, aptitude, self concept,
intelligence and academic achievement etc.
So, the aim of study is to find the emotional
maturity of adolescents and its relation with
intelligence.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Emotional Maturity of Adolescents
in Relation to their Intelligence.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1. To study the emotional maturity
of adolescents.
2. To find difference in emotional
maturity of male and female
adolescents.
3. To find difference in emotional
maturity of rural and urban
adolescents.
4. To find difference in emotional
maturity of government and
private school adolescents.
HYPOTHESES
1. There will be significant
correlation between emotional
maturity and intelligence of
adolescents.
2. There will be significant
difference in emotional maturity
of male and female adolescents.
3. There will be significant
difference in emotional maturity
of rural and urban area
adolescents.
4. There will be significant in
difference in emotional maturity
of government and private school
adolescents.
DELIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
1. Present study will be confined to
200 students.
2. Data will be collected from 6
Govt. and 6 Private schools.
3. Present study will be delimited to
the adolescents of Fazilka district
only.
4. Study will be restricted to see
relationship of variable namely
intelligence with emotional
maturity.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
EMOTIONAL MATURITY AND
INTELLIGENCE
Singh, Bhargav and Srivastva
(1971) concluded that children having
behavioural problems usually come from
broken homes. Results also revealed that
adjustment pattern of mothers of
emotionally disturbed children were
significantly different from the mothers of
normal children. Emotionally disturbed
parents almost always produce an
emotionally disturbed child.
Sharma and Singh (1997) indicated that
male and female undergraduates of urban
areas scored higher than their counterparts
from rural areas in all areas on emotional
maturity scale viz. emotional stress,
emotional depression, social distance,
personality disorder and lack of ascendancy.
Kaur, H. (2001) found significant
relationship between emotional maturity and
intelligence. However no significant relation
was observed between emotional maturity
and academic achievement. Further she
found no significant difference in the
emotional maturity of boys and girls.
Mushtaq and Bharti Kumari
(2003) in a study of parental encouragement,
academic anxiety and emotional stability of
school going adolescents found boys
obtained higher scores in emotional stability
and parental encouragement.
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EMOTIONAL MATURITY IN
RELATION TO AREA, GENDER AND
TYPE OF SCHOOL
Goswami et.al. (1986) in their study
on emotional adjustment of youth in relation
to sex, locality and income found that male
youth showed better emotional adjustment.
Sharma (2000) in a comparative
study on emotional maturity of children of
working and non-working mothers found
that no significant differences were found in
emotional maturity of girls and boys of
working and non-working mothers.
Mahajan (2001) studied the
emotional maturity of high school students
of Jammu City and found insignificant
difference in the emotional maturity of male
and female students.
Kaur, M (2003) in a comprehensive
study on ‘Emotional maturity of senior
secondary students in relation to intelligence
and family climate”, obtained following
results 1) Students studying in government
and private school differed significantly in
different components of emotional maturity.
II) No differences were found in the
emotional maturity of males and females.
DESIGN OF THE STUDY
For the present study survey method
was employed. In this study intelligence is
independent variable and emotional maturity
is the dependent variable. The main purpose
of the study is to see that how the
independent variable influence the
dependent variable.
SAMPLE
The sample of the study consists of
200 students of Xth class from different
private and govt. schools of Fazilka district.
The selection of the subject was done
randomly.
TOOLS OF THE STUDY
1. Emotional Maturity Scale by
Singh & Bhargava (1971)
2. Group Test of General Mental
Ability by R.K. Tandon (1986)
STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES USED
1. Descriptive statistics such as mean,
median, standard deviation,
skewness and Kurtosis was
calculated to ascertain normality of
the data.
2. Pearson’s Product Moment
Correlation was calculated to find
out relationship between
independent & dependent variables
3. t-Ratios were worked out to find out
the significant difference in
emotional maturity of :-
a) Male & Female Adolescents
b) Rural & Urban Adolescents
c) Government & Private
School Adolescents
ANALYSIS OF DATA
The data consisted of scores of
emotional maturity, intelligence of
adolescents. The data is processed
statistically in the following order :-
1. Mean, Median, Standard Deviation,
Skewness and Kurtosis to ascertain
normality of data.
2. Product Moment Correlation
between :-
a) Emotional Maturity and
Intelligence
3. t-ratios between :-
a) Emotional Maturity of Male
and Female Adolescents
b) Emotional Maturity of Rural
and Urban Adolescents
c) Emotional Maturity of Govt. and
Private School Adolescents
