2. A STUDY ON THE EMOTIONAL MATURITY AMONG
MODEL RESIDENTIAL HIGHER SECONDARY
SCHOOLS STUDENTS OF WAYANAD DISTRICT
UNDER THE GUIDENCE OF PROF. K P MEERA
RENJITH PG
2ND SEM M.Ed
3. INTRODUCTION
Education is an essential human virtue. It implies
experience, insight and adjustment on the part of the
learner as he is stimulated towards growth and
development. The child learns through his experience.
He gains experience when he comes in contact with
different social institutions, persons, places and things.
There is no end to this experience. Thus education
becomes an active and dynamic process.
4. Education is a man making process according
to Vivekananda. Whatever it is education is a means
to maintain the mental equilibrium. Maintenance of
emotions is the end product of the education. The
present study investigation has been undertaken in
order to study the emotional maturity of Model
Residential schools (MRS) higher secondary
students in Wayanad District. Students will be
selected from the various residential schools from
Wayanad District and to be utilizing the subjects of
the study.
5. NEED AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Emotional maturity is the key to a happy fulfilled
life without which the individual falls an easy prey to the
dependencies and insecurities. In the present
circumstance youth as well as children are facing
difficulties in life. These difficulties are giving rise to
many psychosomatic problems such as anxiety, tension,
frustrations and emotional aspects in the day to day life.
Emotional maturity is a measure, ones capacity to create
in a positive mental attitude.
6. Emotional maturity said to be the foundation for
leading a happy life. If anyone lacks the emotional
maturity the life of the individual will be sorrowful
affair. Higher secondary stage seems to the formative
stage. There are lot of things to get them emotionally
disturbed.
The events and incidents projected in the media
portray how the youth of today are fall as victims in the
name modernity and spoiling their life to due to
emotional imbalance. This makes the investigator to
conduct a study on Emotional Maturity among Model
Residential Schools of Higher Secondary students of
Wayanad District.
7. Ours a pluralistic society only if we succeed in
bringing the marginalized to the main stream will be
succeed in actualizing social justice. The educational
system in our state has not yet been transformed itself to
meet the needs of children who are socially and
culturally backward.
The Residential schools are started to bring the
marginalized to main stream. So it is important to
conduct study about the Emotional Maturity of these
Residential school students.
8. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The present study entitled as the “A STUDY
ON THE EMOTIOANL MATURITY AMONG MODEL
RESIDENTIAL HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOLS
STUDENTS OF WAYANAD DISTRICT ”
9. DEFINITION OF THE KEY TERMS
EMOTIONAL MATURITY
“Emotional Maturity is the emotional pattern of an
adult who has progressed through the inferior emotional
stages characteristic of infancy, childhood, and
adolescence and with readily and to participate in adult
love relationship without undue emotional strain”.
(Good, 1959)
10. HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS
The People who are studying in the higher
secondary classes, classes XI and XII are called higher
secondary students.
11. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
To study the Emotional Maturity among Model
Residential Higher Secondary school students of
Wayanad District.
To find out whether there is any significant difference in
Emotional Maturity between the sub samples based on
gender.
12. HYPOTHESES
There exist different levels of Emotional Maturity among
the Higher Secondary Model Residential schools
students of Wayanad District.
There will be significance difference in the Emotional
Maturity of Higher Secondary Model Residential
students of Higher Secondary schools based on gender of
Wayanad District.
13. VARIABLES
In the present study gender and Area of
Residence were considered as independent variables
and score of emotional maturity was considered as
dependent variables.
14. METHODOLOGY
This deals with the precise description of
method, sample, tool used for the study, statistical
techniques adopted.
METHOD
Normative survey method used for the study
SAMPLE
The present study conducted on a sample of 300
students of plus two levels of Higher Secondary
Model Residential schools students of Wayanad
District.
15. TOOL USED FOR THE STUDY
The present study will be use Scale of
Emotional Maturity as the tool of the study.
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