STUDY OF SELF-ESTEEM AND EMOTIONAL MATURITY OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

The present study has been designed to investigate the study the self-esteem and emotional maturity of senior secondary school students.For the purpose of the present study, a sample of 200 secondary school students (100 male and 100 female) of Ludhiana District.Self-esteem Inventories by Stanley Coppersmith. Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS) by Dr. Yashvir Singh and Dr. Mahesh Bhargava were used to measure the self-esteem and emotional maturity of senior secondary school students. The data was analyzed using Mean, S.D., t-test. The findings of the study revealed that there exists significant difference between the self-esteem and emotional maturity of senior secondary school students. Further results revealed that there exists no significant difference between the self-esteem of male and female senior secondary school student and there exists significant difference between the emotional maturity of male and female senior secondary school students