STUDY OF EMOTIONAL MATURITY IN RELATION TO ENVIRONS

The present study compares the emotional maturity of college going students from different environs. The objective of this study is to determine the emotional maturity of urban and rural college level students. In the study, normative research method is adopted to do a random survey by administering Emotional Maturity Scale by Singh and Bhargava on 200 college students grouped into two categories i.e. urban and rural. Descriptive and inferential statistics is used for data analysis and interpretation. The data reveals that there are significant differences between urban and rural college level students in emotional maturity indicators viz. emotional instability, emotional regression, social maladjustment, personality disintegration and lack of independence. Further, there is also a significant difference between urban and rural college level students in overall emotional maturity.