A Study of Emotional Maturity in Relation to Self-Confidence and Insecurity in Adolescents

Adolescents have to face many difficulties and to deal with these, adolescents should be emotionally matured. The present study focuses on the impact of emotional maturity on self confidence and insecurity of adolescents. Both males and females were included in the study. A 2x2 factorial design was used for the present study. All the four groups i.e. high emotionally mature males, high emotionally mature females, low emotionally mature males and low emotionally mature females, comprised of 25 subjects with a total of 100 subjects in the age range of 15-17 years. Tools utilized were Emotional Maturity Scale, Agnihotri's Self-Confidence Inventory and Security-Insecurity (S-I) Inventory. Results indicate that adolescents who are high emotionally mature have more self confidence and higher sense of security in comparison to low emotionally mature adolescents. Gender of the adolescents has no impact on these variables.