Emotional maturity, daily hassles stress and economic status among college students
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: The present study compared emotional maturity and daily hassles stress of male and female students coming from different economic status. Methods: The sample consisted of 200 graduate students from Ahmednagar city from Maharashtra.The age range of the sample was 18-22 years. One hundred of these were from low economic status and remaining hundred were from high economic status. In each group- 50 boys and 50 girls were included.The two tests used for this study were namely, Emotional maturity scale (Taneja, P.2004) and Daily Hassles Scale (Lazarus & Folkman1989). A 2x2 ANOVA showed significant main effects as well as interaction effect of gender and economic status on emotional maturity and daily hassles stress. Results: The results showed that economic status was a significant variable, which has proved its significance in the entire study. The mean differences are not significant. Students from low economic status were significantly higher on daily hassles stress than the students from high econmic status (F (1,196) = 10.11, p < .001).Conclusion:Girls and boys did not differ in daily hassles stress. Student from high economic students were significantly higher on emotional maturity than low economic status students. Girls were not significantly different on emotional maturity than boys.
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Bhise Sudam Arjun
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- DOI 10.30877/IJMH.5.1.2018.58-62
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