Emotional correlates of anxiety among adolescents

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Anjana Devi and Sandeep Singh (Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana)

Adolescence is a very critical age because youngsters face numerous kinds of problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, anger at this stage and are more susceptible to develop many kinds of unhealthy habits and coping styles that interrupt their adult life. These problems can be handled with the proper support and healthy relationships that make a child strong enough to tolerate anxiety and emotional problems of life. The present study is done to find out the effect of emotional maturity on anxiety in school students. The study was conducted on a sample of 600 school students (300 boys & 300 girls). State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) developed by Spielberger, Gorsuch, Lushene, Vagg, and Jacobs (1983 ) and Emotional maturity scale (EMS) developed by Singh and Bhargava (1999) were used as tools for the present study. For the analysis of data, correlation, descriptive statistics and t-test were used in this study. Results showed that there is significant correlation between emotional maturity and anxiety.