EMOTIONAL MATURITY OF ADOLESCENTS IN INTACT FAMILY AND SINGLE PARENT FAMILY
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2019-07
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Adolescence is a crucial period in an individual’s life. It consists of both challenges and opportunities for growth, accompanied with issues like independence and self identity. Adolescent during this crucial period may come across various psychological and emotional challenges.So, proper instruction and supervision of emotions during this period becomes very important. Family being the first and the primary support system in adolescent’s life, to a great extent can help the adolescent in overcoming these challenges andhelp them in buildingpositive emotional approach towards life.The presentstudy aimed to assess the emotional maturity of adolescent from intact family and single parent family,their differences in emotional maturity and also differences in emotional maturity in relation to their gender.A total of 104 samples were selected for the study consisting of equal number of respondents from both single-parent families and intact parent families from the age group of 13 to 16 years.The selected samples were equally distributed among genders for both the families in order to assess the gender difference.To elicit the background information of the respondents a self constructed questionnaire was prepared. The scale named Emotional Maturity Scale developed by Dr. Yashwir Singh and Dr. Mahesh Bhargava (2010) was administered for assessing the emotional maturity of adolescents.The findings of the study revealed a significant difference in the emotional maturity of adolescents in intact parent families and single parent families. It was found that none of the respondents from both the families were extremely emotionally mature and moderately emotionally mature. Majority of the respondents from intact parent families were found to be emotionally immature and majority of the respondents from single parent families were found to be extremely emotionally immature.The mean score of adolescents from single parent families were more in all dimensions of emotional maturity as compared to the adolescents from intact parent families.Further, it also revealed no significant difference in the emotional maturity of adolescents in relation to their gender.