Gender differences in emotional maturity among urban adolescents

Abstract

The present research was conducted to study the gender differences in emotionalmaturity. In the present study, a sample of 100 students (50 boys and 50 girls) in the age groupof 16-18 was drawn from the Govt. Higher Secondary School of Ludhiana city. Emotional MaturityScale (Singh and Bhargava, 1990) was used to collect data. Overall results indicated that bothboys and girls were emotionally unstable. In comparison to girls, boys were found to be moreemotionally mature than girls