Relationship between emotional maturity and academic achievement among adolescents

Abstract

Emotional maturity denotes the ability to understand and manage the feelings and emotions of an individual. When the individuals are faced with a complex or a difficult situation, the level of emotional maturity is one of the biggest factors in determining the ability to cope for the situation and the consequences. The period of adolescence is a transition from childhood to being an independent adult; it is a period of life characterized by change and by moving away from one’s family and towards one’s peers. The School education particularly high School education plays an important role in personal and professional success. But during this stage of life many elements influence, the process of education an especially academic achievement that is why the present study has been conducted to investigate the relationship of emotional maturity in the academic achievement among Adolescence students. The study was performed with 400 participants, studying in class 10th standard. Among them 200 students are from Bengaluru urban and 200 from Bengaluru rural. Data was collected using the emotional maturity scale by Singh and Bhargava (1990) and the Academic achievement scale by Prathiba and Asha (2018). The data were analysed through Pearson’s product moment correlation and step-wise multiple regression. The findings of the present investigation reveal that there is a positive correlation between emotional maturity and academic achievement among Adolescents and few areas of emotional maturity majorly predict academic achievement. Thus, emotional maturity plays important role in the academic achievement of adolescents.