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Emotional Maturity of Adolescent Students in Relation to Their Family Relationship

Author Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Education, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 3, Issue (3), Pages 6-8, March,14 (2014)

Abstract

The present study is aimed to investigate emotional maturity of adolescent students in relation to family relationship. For this purpose, sample of 60 adolescent students (30 boys and 30 girls) of higher secondary level were taken from Karnal city. For this purpose two questioners were used 1st inventory standardized by Dr. G.P. Sherry and Dr. J.C. Sinha and 2ndwas emotional maturity scale which is given by Dr. Yashvir Sinha and Mahesh Bhargava. The testing of hypotheses was done by using ‘r’ test to find out the relationship and‘t’ test was used to comparing the score of two groups (boys and girls). The result reveals that there is a significant difference in emotional maturity of boys and girls adolescent. The result also reveals that there is significant relation between emotional maturity and family relationship of adolescent students. This shows that family relationship determinates emotional maturity of adolescent students..

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