Relationship between Examination Stress and Emotional Maturity of Student Teachers

Abstract

Education plays a great role in the life of everyone all through the life. Getting proper education is very necessary to get success and happiness for life just like food is necessary for a healthy body. Education develops personality of the people, provides physical and mental standard and transforms people’s living status. The attitude which a student’s holds towards himself especially those dealing with emotional maturity plays an important role in the development of his personality. It has also been argued that the student’s emotional maturity and his examination stress in college are not independent phenomenon. These are affected by some of the factors like school and family environments and also the parental involvement. The present study aimed to study the examination stress and emotional maturity of student teacher sand the existing relationship between them. The sample consists of 430 student teachers. On the whole, the findings of the present study revealed that there was significant and negative relationship between examination stress and emotional maturity of student teachers.