Relationship between Emotional Maturity and Altruistic Behaviour among High School Students

Abstract

Emotional maturity indicates the state of mind where an individual can balance his/ her emotions and know how to handle the hard situation without feeling panic. The objectives of the study is to find out the relationship between emotional maturity and altruistic behaviour in relation to high school student’s gender, place of residence and type of school management. In the present study, the researchers adopted normative survey method with simple random sampling to select a sample of 160 high school students aged 14 –16 years in Sonitpur district of Assam. The researcher collected and analyzed the data statistically by using mean, standard deviation, and t-test. The findings of this study indicate that emotional maturity and altruistic behaviour has positive (relationship and there is a significant mean difference in emotional maturity among male and female students, rural and urban, and government and private school students.