TOPIC

Emotional Maturity of Secondary School Teachers In Relation To Their Academic Qualification and Social Status

AUTHOR

Abdul Rahim

ABSTRACT
The term or word ‘emotion’ is derived from Latin word ‘emovere’, which means ‘to move’, or ‘to stirrup’. In Psychology, the concept of ‘maturity’ is termed as the ability to respond to the environment in an apt manner and this act is generally learned through experiences and is not instinctive. Hambrick, described emotional maturity in terms of two features i.e. a) the skill of identifying and differentiating their own emotions, and b) exposing themselves to emotions to gain experiences, and in order to know which emotion suits to a particular kind of situation. As we know that the teachers are always working under several challenging conditions both within and outside the classroom i.e. not only engaging with their students, colleagues and as well as their administrators, thus in order to deal aptly with all of them, emotional maturity of the teacher plays a vital role in maintaining conducive atmosphere and to carry out all their day to day activities smoothly. Hence the investigator made an attempt to study about the emotional maturity of secondary school teachers. 640 secondary school teachers of Kurnool Mandal were taken as a sample, employed random sampling method and used the Emotional Maturity Scale developed by Singh & Bhargava to measure emotional maturity of secondary school teachers to carry out this study. The data were analyzed by using both descriptive statistics and as well as inferential statistics i.e. Mean, Standard Deviation, C.R test and ANOVA were employed to analyze the data. The findings revealed that there is a significant difference in emotional maturity of secondary school teachers in relation to their academic qualification and there is no significant difference in emotional maturity of secondary school teachers in relation to their social status.

Keywords: Emotion, Maturity, Emotional maturity, Academic qualification, Social status and Secondary school teachers.

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PUBLISHED

2023-01-11

HOW TO CITE

Abdul Rahim(2023).Emotional Maturity of Secondary School Teachers In Relation To Their Academic Qualification and Social Status, IAA Journal of Communication, 9(1):17-20.