Emotional Maturity and Academic Anxiety Among Senior Secondary School Students: A Correlational Study

सार

The present correlational research study aims to investigate how emotional maturity relates to academic anxiety experienced by senior secondary school students. Researcher collected data from students aged 16 to 18 years throughout four different schools by utilizing the Emotional Maturity Scale and Academic Anxiety Scale for Children. The study results demonstrated a significant negative correlation between emotional maturity and academic anxiety with a correlation coefficient of r = -0.687 and a p-value below 0.01 which showed that higher emotional maturity leads to decreased academic anxiety. The study found gender differences because female students reported more academic anxiety with an average score of 68.45 while male students had an average score of 61.32. The findings have important implications for educational interventions which aim to improve emotional competencies because this approach helps to decrease academic stress.

Keywords: Emotional Maturity, Senior Secondary Students, academic Anxiety.