A Comparative Study on Emotional Maturity of Secondary School Students in Lakhimpur District of Assam

The present study investigated the emotional maturity of secondary school students in Lakhimpur district of Assam. The study was conducted on five hundred class-X students by giving due representation to boys (250) and girls (250) as well as rural and urban localities of Lakhimpur district. The 20 Government and Private secondary schools were selected using stratified random sampling technique, and students were selected using simple random sampling technique. The descriptive survey method is used for data collection using Emotional Maturity Scale (M. Bhargava and Y. Singh, 1990). The finding of the study reported that there was not any significant difference in various areas of emotional maturity of government and private school students, no significant difference in the emotional maturity level of boys and girls school students, and there is no significant difference between in the emotional maturity level of rural and urban secondary school students of Lakhimpur district of Assam.