A study of emotional maturity among employed and unemployed graduates

Pages: 24-28
Anjali Singh and Sunita Kumari (Department of Psychology, Shri Varshney College, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

Mental health is similar to maturity and maturity is arisen from time and responsibilities. If a person cannot play a sufficient role according to time and responsibilities, they cannot be mentally or emotionally healthy, if individuals are unemployed. Several studies have revealed an association between unemployment and mental health and shown that unemployment can affect people’s emotional maturity differently. The aim of this present paper was to study the emotional maturity of the employed and unemployed graduates. The sample consisted of 200 graduate students from different areas of Aligarh district in U.P., in which 100 employed (50 male & 50 female) and 100 unemployed (50 male & 50 female) graduates. The sample was selected through random sampling method, in which the age range of the selected subjects were 20 to 30 years. The scale of Emotional maturity was used to data collection which was developed by (Singh & Bhargava, 1990). To find out the significant difference between employed and unemployed graduates calculated the mean, standard deviation (SD), and t-test. The findings of the study revealed the significant difference between employed and unemployed graduates.