The Influence of Residential Area and Gender on Adolescent Emotional Maturity

AbstractThe process through which an individual is consistently found to have a stronger feeling of emotional wellbeing is known as emotional maturity. The emotional development of a person has an impact on their behaviours. A person with emotional maturity can adapt to any circumstance and face any difficulties in a calm manner with the help of the appropriate decisions. In order to develop into a strong, emotionally mature person with a balanced personality in life, teenagers must be properly guided. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of residential area and gender on adolescent’s emotional maturity. The investigational sample was purposively drawn from the Bikaner city, Rajasthan state. A sample of 100 respondents, (equally taken both the gender from residential area categories i.e. Rural and urban area) adolescent students was selected. Data were collected by administering the Emotional Maturity Scale developed by Prof. Yeshver Singh and Prof. Mahesh Bhargave (1990) and analysed by Mean, SD, and t-test to compare mean scores between groups. Therefore, the results reflective of male adolescents had relatively better emotional maturity then female. Whereas the urban areas’ adolescents had comparatively better emotional maturity than their counterparts.