Comparison of Emotional Maturity among Male Students of Senior Secondary Schools of Arts and Science Stream in Western Uttar Pradesh.

Shikha Sharma; Dharamveer Singh; Dr. Vivek Kumar; Dr. Surendra Pal Bharti

Volume : VIII, Issue : I, January - 2018

Comparison of Emotional Maturity among Male Students of Senior Secondary Schools of Arts and Science Stream in Western Uttar Pradesh.

Shikha Sharma, Dharamveer Singh, Dr. Vivek Kumar, Dr. Surendra Pal Bharti

Abstract :

Background: Inadequate development of emotional maturity in an individual may lead to inadequate success in life. Hence, this aspect should be explored in early life to intervene early to overall positive development of individual. Aim and Objectives: To study the emotional maturity among male students of senior secondary schools affiliated to CBSE Board of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh compå arts and science stream. Method: Randomly selected 50 male students in each group of arts and science stream of senior secondary schools were assessed on Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS). Results: Emotional Unstability, Personality Disintegration and Independence subsets of EMS are significantly different in both the groups with respective p–values of 0.04, 0.02 and 0.02. Mean total score on EMS also reveal that students in science group attained significantly higher overall emotional maturity than arts students (t = –2.13, df = 98, p = 0.03). Total score on EMS reveals majority of students in arts group falls in the ‘Extremely Unstable’ category (n=52%) and students in science group falls in ‘Unstable’ category (n=38%). Conclusions: The lower total mean scores and lower mean score in the subsets of EMS show that the students in science group had attained higher emotional maturity than the students of arts group.