Emotional maturity and self-esteem among adolescents staying in government children’s home

According to WHO, adolescents is person aged 10 to 19 years inclusive unless national law defines a person to be adult at an earlier age. Children’s home is open shelter which provides care and protection to child in need and care. Emotional maturity refers to ability of a person to cope up with the situation. Self-esteem is used to describe a person’s overall evaluation about oneself. The present study aimed to find the level of emotional Maturity and self-esteem among adolescent staying in Government Children’s Home. The participants include 40 females and 35 male’s adolescents staying in government children’s home. Simple Random sampling method was employed to select the sample. The tool used was emotional maturity Scale developed by Sing, Y & Bhargava, M (1999) and the self-esteem is developed by Rosenberg.M (1965). The obtained results analyzed using Independent sample t test and Karl Pearson coefficient of correlation. The results indicated that there is no significant gender difference in level of emotional maturity and there is significant gender difference in level of self-esteem and study also revealed there is no significant relationship between emotional maturity and self-esteem. 77.5% of the Female Adolescents staying in Government Children Home had low level of emotional maturity. 85% of the Male Adolescents staying in Government Children Home had low level of emotional maturity.55% of the Female Adolescents staying in Government Children Home had low level of Self Esteem. 77% of the Male Adolescents staying in Government Children Home had low level of Self Esteem. The importance of psychosocial interventions such as individual counseling to improve the level of Emotional Maturity and Self Esteem, family counseling should be given to improve family conditions result in low level of emotional maturity and self-esteem and behavior modifications techniques such as Rational emotive behavioral therapy, Cognitive behavioral therapy and Assertiveness training  can be used to boost up self-esteem and remove negative thoughts, feelings and irrational beliefs which affect the level of emotional maturity among the Adolescents staying in Government Children’s Home. The necessary steps such as good environmental set up, counseling and awareness programs to children staying in Government Children’s Home and including much more recreational activities in the Government Children’s home set up to make the children to have high Self-Esteem and Emotional Maturity.