A Study of Relationship between Emotional Maturity & Adjustment for School Students

Emotionally mature child is not one who necessarily has resolved all conditions that aroused anxiety and hostility but it is continuously in process of seeing himself in clearer perspective, continual involved in a struggle to gain healthy integration of feeling, thinking and action. The aim of this study is to know the relationship between adjustment and emotional maturity at secondary stage. In the present study, a descriptive survey method was used. The sample comprised of 100 students (50 boys and 50 girls) of Class X from 4 Government schools. The study will be helpful for teachers, students, parents and all the stakeholders in the process of education. For the present study Singh and Bhargav’s Emotional Maturity Scale & Adjustment inventory by A.K.P. Sinha and R.P. Singh was used to assess the emotional maturity and adjustment of the students studying in X class. The procedure adopted for administration of the test: questionnaire was distributed to the students and they were given some time limit. There was one correct answer for each option which was cross marked in the box given in front of the sentences. The findings of the present study may be helpful to the students, teachers, principals, administrators and educational planners.