Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
Shikha Kapoor, Dr. Manju Kanwar Rathore and Kusum

Abstract:
Social and emotional maturity is the adolescent's ability to regulate emotions, think realistically, understand themselves, and express emotions appropriately. Adolescence is an important period for developing social and emotional habits important for mental well-being, such as healthy sleep patterns, exercise, coping skills, etc. The emotional and social maturity of adolescents students in the Rajasthan city of Bikaner was the subject of this study. Rao's Social Maturity Scale was used to evaluate the respondents' social maturity, while Yeshver Singh and Mahesh Bhargava's Emotional development scale was used to evaluate their emotional development. Using the Pearson correlation coefficient, the data was evaluated. A purposeful random sampling procedure was used to choose 100 adolescents, 50 of whom were males and 50 were girls, for the interview schedule. According to the results, an adverse significant difference was discovered between the three emotional maturity aspects of emotional regression, social maladjustment, personality disintegration, and personal adequacy. Therefore, The negative correlation was found between social maturity and emotional maturity.