In adolescents, emotional development refers to the attainment of emotional capabilities as they grow. In this study Emotional maturity was assessed and compared among adolescent boys and girls using Modified Emotional Maturity Scale. 300 adolescent boys and 300 adolescent girls were selected by simple random sampling. The study findings revealed that 78.7% of adolescent girls had high emotional maturity, while 64% of adolescent boys had high emotional maturity. This is indicating that adolescent girls are having higher emotional maturity than adolescent boys. There was significant association between emotional maturity and selected variables like gender, aggregate marks in previous year, educational status of fathers, educational status of mothers, occupation of mothers and monthly family income.
Emotional Maturity, Adolescent Boys, Adolescent Girls
