Emotional maturity and life satisfaction of adults participants: A gender based study

Pages: 779-782
Sheetal Chhabra (School Lecturer, Department of Education, Haryana)
Teenu Nandal (School Lecturer, Department of Education, Haryana)

The present research endeavor was aimed to investigate the connection between life satisfaction and emotional maturity of adult participants. The sample consisted of 200 participants (100 male & 100 female) taken from Rohtak, Gohana, Behadurgrah, and Jind (cities of Haryana) by using purposive random sampling technique. The sample varies from 40 to 50 years (adults) of age. The partakers are administered with Emotional Maturity Scale (Singh & Bhargava, 1984) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larson, & Griffin, 1985). The data was analysed to observe the relationship and differences between the variables of both the groups. Results showed that emotional maturity and life satisfaction strongly associated with each other. Moreover, there are found significant gender differences on both the variables. Female participants are having high level of life satisfaction and emotional maturity as compared to male participants Implications of the study are also discussed.