Level of Emotional Maturity between Urban and Rural Professional Courses Students

Abstract

      Professional course students have tough competition as they are expected to be successful in their career. Moreover, society in general has high expectations from professional course students. Parental or family expectations on one hand their own desire to succeed in their chosen course builds a lot of pressure on professional students, those results in stress Level compared to non- professional course students. Present study was carried out to examine whether Urban and Rural Professional students differ in their emotional maturity Level. The descriptive study design was employed, in which 30 Urban and 30 Rural Professional course students were included. Emotional maturity scale developed by yashvir singh and Mahesh Bhargava’s (1990) was used to measure the emotional maturity of the samples. The sample chosen were in the age group between 18-23 years.  The obtained data was analysed with the help of independent ‘t’ test.  The results indicated that Significant difference was found between Urban and Rural professional course students in Emotional maturity and Significant difference was also found between Male and Female professional course students in Emotional maturity.

Key words; Emotional maturity, Urban and Rural Professional course students