Emotionally Mature Research Articles

Effect of Maternal Employment on Adolescents' Development

With the emergence of a new economic pattern, increasing opportunities for education, rising standard of living and increased modernization, women from the middle and upper class families have also started coming out of their traditional role ofa home maker to join the work force. The number of working women has been increasing year by year. The increasing number of women in the work force has created a number of problems to their children and paved way for controversies regarding maternal employment and child development. There is a general feeling that the maternal employment brings emotional deprivation to the school age children (Khan & Hassan, 2012).Adolescence is one of the important periods of life. It is characterized by numerous problems. With the demands of globalization, the nature and number of challenges have become still more compared to the yesteryears. Family, which plays an important role in the personality development of adolescents, is undergoing structural, emotional and interactional transformations. The contributions of mothers in shaping the personality of their children cannot be ignored. But an unprecedented number of women, especially mothers are entering the labor force either due to economic necessity or in search of identity. This has led to radical shift in the traditional role of mother as a 'care taker' to a 'bread earner' and has altered child rearing goals and practices.Quite a large number of empirical studies have yielded conflicting evidences regarding the impact of maternal employment on their children (Hangal & Aminabhavi, 2007). Based on previous research works, especially two theories regarding the impact of maternal employment have been emerged i.e., the guilt-over protection theory and the neglected theory. According to the first theory, the employed mother feels guilty about leaving her children and tries to compensate with love and over protection. The second theory presumes that the dual role creates role strain and leads to child neglect (Hangal et ah, 2007).Adjustment is defined as a process which helps in making a compromise between the individual's own need and the demands of the environment. A well-adjusted person is considered to be guided by long term satisfaction of needs and to maintain a harmonious and satisfying relationship with his environment. Muni and Panigrahi (1998) reported that children of working mothers were better adjusted in the classroom setting than those of non-working mothers. Maternal employment was not a burden rather it was an asset for children.The concept of achievement is characterized by a desire to attain a high standard of excellence and to accomplish the unique objectives. In such a situation individual shows concern with competition with standard of excellence. Achievement motive is a drive aroused by inducing a situation 'ego-involvement' and it varies from person to person, group to group and is open to cultural influences.The emotional maturity refers how much a person is emotionally mature, i.e., the capacity ofa person to withstand different emotional conditions of life. One of the attribute of maturity is a firm sense of reality and is characterized by person's flexibility and adaptability. Individual's emotional maturity finds its genesis in his/her mother. An emotionally mature child has the capacity to make effective adjustment with himself, members of his family, and his peers in the school, society and culture. Sharma (1986) has revealed that the children of non- working mothers were found to be more excited, tender hearted, sensitive, dependent and more protective and Rane (1986) found that neurotic disorders were located in the children of working mothers.Self-esteem is a concept that a person has regarding his own self which consists of any evaluation that he/she makes of himself or whatever feeling he has about himself. The present attempt, takes into account personally-perceived self and socially-perceived self-adopting suitable statistical procedures. …

Emotional Maturity of Internet Users

Internet has been emerged as a most powerful tool for communication and exchange of information all over the world. More recently the web 2.0 tools has provoked a revolution and unlocked a new dimension in the field of communication and technology; this ongoing digital revolution has touched and turned almost every sphere of life of its users whether its physical, social, emotional, moral or ethical. For internet users it is the need of hour to be emotionally mature to manage and monitor their own emotions, to assess the emotional state of others, to deal with the situations accordingly and purposefully. Quite often it has been observed that young internet users get emotionally involved in this virtual world and act in that emotional flow which sometimes results in an emotional trauma leaving its impression for long. The purpose of this study was to investigate about the emotional maturity of internet users and to find out that is there any gender difference in their emotional maturity. Findings revealed that the young internet users are not emotionally mature. Results showed that there is significant gender difference in emotional stability, independence and total emotional maturity of internet users under study. Females who use emailing along with chatting are more emotionally stable in comparison to males.

Role of Economic Class in Ascertaining Social and Emotional Maturity of Adolescents

The present study was undertaken to assess and compare the social and emotional maturity of 277 randomly drawn class XI students of Pantnagar, Uttarakhand across family economic class. A self-designed questionnaire was used to study the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents of the present study. Social and Emotional maturity of the respondents were assessed employing Rao's Social Maturity Scale and Emotional Maturity Scale, respectively. The study revealed that adolescents from higher and upper middle class family were significantly more personally adequate than those from rest of the classes whereas, on social adequacy component, adolescents from higher class were observed to be significantly lower than those from rest of the family classes. Adolescents from higher income family were seen to be significantly more socially adjusting and independent than those specifically from lower income family. On the whole adolescents from higher income family were seen to be significantly more emotionally mature in comparison to the ones from other classes. Social maturity and emotional maturity were found to be significantly and positively correlated with each other across family economic class.

Older partner selection in young African-American men who have sex with men.

Young African-American (AA) men who have sex with men (YAAMSM) have experienced the greatest proportional increase in new HIV cases compared with other groups. Bridging sexual partnerships between YAAMSM and older aged cohorts with higher rates of primary HIV infection has emerged as an important independent risk factor for the development of HIV. We explored reasons young AAMSM cite for being attracted to and seeking an older partner and the interpersonal needs met within older sexual partnerships. Seventeen in-depth semistructured qualitative interviews were conducted in YAAMSM residing in a midsized urban city with high HIV prevalence. Two coders independently evaluated transcribed data to identify/collapse codes that emerged. We analyzed data using categorical and contextualizing analytic methods. Two themes emerged from the text for seeking an older sexual partner: the emotional maturity the older partner represented and the ability of the older partner to expose the younger partner to more life experiences. In addition, two themes emerged around attraction: support and physical attractiveness of the older partner. Few men described seeking age-discordant relationships for the sole purpose of exchange sex. Older partners during first same-sex experience helped younger partners sort through sexual position and how to perform in relationships. These interviews suggest that YAAMSM may be seeking older partners to fulfill desires to be in a stable, emotionally mature relationship and for exposure in the larger community. Prevention strategies aimed at targeting adolescent MSM age-discordant relationships will need to address the interpersonal needs met within older sexual partnerships.

The Relationship between Emotional Maturity, Intelligence and Creativity in Gifted Children

From experience of working with gifted children we could observe a gap between their intellectual and emotional functions. The purpose of this study was to explore the inter-relationships between emotional maturity and intelligence in gifted children. Emotional maturity is defined as the strength and courage to actualize individual abilities within the frame of social demands. Our hypothesis was that emotional maturity would have an affect on creativity, independent of intelligence. In the study, 221 children participated, between the ages of 9–13. All were measured for emotional maturity, intelligence and creativity. Results showed an effect of emotional maturity on creativity, as well as an effect of intelligence. Among the highly intelligent group, emotionally mature children were more creative. These results demonstrate that giftedness is conditioned not only by high intelligence but that emotional maturity has its share in it, and their interaction facilitates creative behavior — the actualization of the whole personality.

The relationship between emotional maturity and drinking-and-driving involvement among young adults

The relationship between emotional maturity and drinking-and-driving involvement among young adults aged 25-34 was investigated. The variables were sex, age broken down into two groups (25-29 and 30-39), and six drinking-and-driving categories. The Revised Huffman Inventory was used to measure emotional immaturity. The inventory was administered to graduate students enrolled at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville during the summer of 1981. A table of random numbers was used to obtain a sample of 326 subjects. A three-factor analysis of variance was used to test the hypotheses. If a difference among groups was significant (p less than .05), Duncan's Multiple Range Test was applied to determine where those differences were. The conclusions were: (1) among females and males in the same age group, females are more emotionally mature than males; (2) age is a factor in emotional maturity in that emotional maturity increases with age; and (3) there appears to be a link between emotional maturity and drinking-and-driving involvement in that persons with lower emotional maturity are more likely to drive while under the influence of alcohol.