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A Study of Emotional Maturity and Resilience among the Juvenile Delinquents and Non-Juvenile Delinquents
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India is set to become the youngest country by 2020, as today every 3rd person in India is youth, and approximately every 6th individual are indulging himself/herself in criminal activities. It was the primary aim of the present research to study the emotional maturity and resilience among the juvenile delinquents boys and among the school going inmates. Sample size was 60, among which 30 were juveniles and 30 were school going inmates, the age group was 12-17 years. Results yielded clear support for the hypothesis that there is significant difference in emotional maturity among Juveniles and Non-juvenile delinquents. The result shows significant difference in Emotional maturity among juvenile delinquents and non-juvenile delinquents; whereas no significant difference was seen in Resilience among both the samples. The correlation found among Emotional Maturity and resilience in the juvenile delinquents was negative but in Non-juvenile delinquents was positive.
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Emotional Maturity, Resilience, Juvenile Delinquents.
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