Emotional maturity among sports and non-sports college students

Pages: 646-648
Sharyu Suresh Kshirsagar and Ashwin R. Jaiswal (Department of Psychology, Government Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities, Amravati, Maharashtra)

Emotional maturity play a very important role in various aspect of life such as education, profession, family, social etc. There are various ways to improve emotional maturity like positive attitude, independent thinking, patience, and consistent effort. Present study aims to investigate what is the role of sports in the development of emotional maturity. Total 120 participants including 60 sports and 60 non-sports college students include in the study. Emotional maturity of the participant measured by Emotional Maturity Scale (1990) develop by Singh and Bhargava. T-test is used for analyzing the data. Findings of the study reveals that sports and non-sports college students significantly differ in their total emotional maturity as well as its five different factors i.e. emotional unstability, emotional regression, social maladjustment, personal disintegration and lack of independence.