A Study on Emotional Maturity of Adolescent Boys and Girls across Socio-Economic Status

The present investigation is conducted to access impact of gender and socio-economic status on emotional maturity of adolescents. Selected sample comprised of 450 adolescents (225 boys and 225 girls) belong to age group of 13 to 18 years from three socio-economic groups (upper, middle and lower socio-economic group. For fulfilling the purpose of study, the higher secondary schools were selected from Prayagraj city. Stratified random sampling technique was used for selection of the sample. Questionnaire was used as a tool for collecting information from the respondents. Socio-economic status of the adolescents was accessed by Kuppuswamy's socio-economic scale (1961) which is revised by Gururaj and Maheshwaran in 2014. A self developed questionnaire was used as tool for accessing emotional maturity of adolescents which standardized by test –rest method and item analysis. For statistical analysis of data, t-test and ANOVA was used.