Study of Relationship between Social Maturity and Adjustment of Government School Stude

Abstract

The present study aims to find out the relationship between social maturity and adjustment of adolescents studying in government secondary schools of Delhi. Sample comprises randomly selected a total of 80 students of class 9 from four government secondary schools. Standardised tools of social maturity and adjustment were used for data collection. The major findings of the study indicate that government secondary school students (45%) were found high socially mature and 50% were reported under average socially mature category, whereas around 27% students were found highly adjusted and 68% were reported under average adjusted category. A high significant correlation (r-value 0.54*) was calculated seen between social maturity and adjustment among students, which indicates that government school students are more socially mature and well adjusted, and social maturity influences the adjustment. Thus, it was concluded that more socially mature person is better adjusted in any environment and vice versa.