A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EMOTIONAL STABILITY OF ADOLESCENT STUDENTS

Emotional maturity has been proven to be an effective determinant of personality pattern. It plays a vital role in controlling the growth of adolescent’s development. The paper examines the emotional stability which is one of the major components of emotional maturity, of adolescent students of private and government schools of Haryana from a comparative perspective. The sample consists of 180 adolescent students of three private and three government schools of Gurgaon District. The data has been collected using a standardized tool namely Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS) developed by Dr. Mahesh Bharagava and Dr.Yashvir Singh in 1990. It was concluded that the comparative difference between the emotional stability of adolescent students of private and government schools in Gurgaon is negligible. Findings are discussed in relation to future implications for this group of adolescent’s students in the context of emotional maturity