Abstract

The aim of the present study is to investigate emotional maturity of secondary school students in relation to academic achievement. For this purpose a sample of 400 students (200 boys and 200 girls) of class IX were taken from 8 schools (4 Government and 4 Private) of Aligarh. For this purpose Emotional Maturity Scale by Dr. Yashvir Singh and Dr. Mahesh Bhargava (1990) and Academic Achievement of the VIII class were used. The testing of hypotheses was done by using Pearson product moment correlation to find out the relationship between emotional maturity and academic achievement of secondary school students and t-test was used to compare the scores of two groups of secondary school students (male and female, government and private). The study reveals that most of the secondary school students are extremely unstable regarding emotional maturity. The study also reveals that there exist a highly positive correlation between emotional maturity and academic achievement of secondary school students.