Impact Analysis: Family Structure on Social and Emotional Maturity of Adolescents

Abstract

The present study has been designed and formulated to find out if type of family has any significant impact on social and emotional maturity of senior school adolescents of Pantnagar and to derive relationship between social and emotional maturity. 277 adolescents studying in class XI were taken randomly for the study. Self-designed socio-demographic questionnaire was used to study the socio-demographic characteristics of respondents of the present study. Social maturity and Emotional maturity of the respondents were assessed through Rao’s Social Maturity Scale and Emotional Maturity Scale, respectively. Results revealed that respondents from joint family were more personally, interpersonally and socially adequate and thus, socially mature than those from nuclear family. Similarly, they were significantly higher on emotional stability, emotional progression, social adjustment, personality integration and independence component of emotional maturity than those from nuclear family. Social maturity and emotional maturity was found to be significantly positively correlated across type of family.