DGMOLKe
DGMOLKe
DGMOLKe
Abstract: Adolescence is the most impressive period of human life not only for
physical development but also for the mental, intellectual and emotional development.
Maturity is always related to development. Social development of the child is
associated with other features of growth. A socially mature person is able to adapt
himself successfully in his surroundings. Some social qualities like group
compatibility, kindness, sympathy, empathy, emotional adjustability, courtesy and
politeness, self confidence, co-operation, leadership and cheerfulness should be
developed amidst the society. To study the level of social maturity among the lower
secondary school students 200 samples are taken from the Matia block of Goalpara
district, Assam where 100 are boys and 100 are girls. Descriptive survey method is
used and Social Maturity Scale by Nalini Rao is used for data collection. To study the
level and difference of social maturity mean, median, standard deviation skewness,
kurtosis and z-test are used to analysis the data.
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1. Introduction
Adolescence is the most impressive period of human life not only for physical
development but also for the mental, intellectual and emotional development. An
adolescent has to cope up himself/herself with the family, school and society which are
regarded as a complex task. Besides these complexities an adolescent grows up to the
maximum with all the capacities. Adolescent becomes a socially responsible person
and emotionally mature for adjustment in the society. Man is a social animal and
without society man cannot survive. So, it is the responsibility of every person to
develop the social qualities within him/her for better adjustment and it is easy when the
person becomes socially mature.
Maturity is the capacity to handle and react to the situation in a proper way.
Maturity also comprehends being aware of the correct time and location to behave and
knowing when to act, according to the circumstances and the culture of the society one
lives in. It is difficult to define in a single sentence. Firstly maturity is to know oneself,
one’s potentiality, quality, capability etc. A matured person is usually aware when to
act, how to act, what to act according to the demands of the situation. It also helps the
people to make differentiation between two things that is right and wrong, truth and
false, virtue and vice. A person becomes mature according to the age and physical
development. Learning and experiences of life are that two things which increases a
person’s maturity level. It is being one’s own individual and that can be attained only
by carefully investigating the contents of mind like the ideal of one, role models, path
of life and the beliefs, values, morals, religions, self worth etc. Maturity is nothing but
to achieve the development of sensibility to ignore the negative factors and to take
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right decision in critical situations and to accept the reality. It is an attitude built by
experience of a person throughout his life. A matured person can control his emotions
in any situation; maturity begins to grow when one can sense his concern for others
outweighing his concern for himself.
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physical, moral, mental, social and practical. It develops whole into a self disciplined
individual who appreciates work and manages time properly. In Assam, Rastriya
Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) was launched on 2nd March 2009 for
universalization of access and improvement of quality of secondary stage of education.
Study of social maturity of the learner especially at the lower secondary stage
is important because from this stage the student started to develop their learning
capability, reasoning power, vocational capability which is helpful to take future
decisions of their life. This stage is like a bridge between childhood and adolescence
which is regarded as the most crucial stage of human life. So, this stage should be
handled carefully. Social maturity helps the students to take proper decisions of their
life and also to adjust themselves among the peers, family, society and community.
Without social maturity problems may face by the lower secondary school students.
So, the researcher has selected to find out the level of social maturity, differences of
social maturity in terms of gender of the lower secondary school students of Matia
Block of Goalpara District of Assam. This study is important because in the Matia
Block of Goalpara District there is no study has been conducted in this particular area
and the researcher is interested to study the social maturity of the lower secondary
school students.
The present study has been entitled as “Study on the Level of Social Maturity
of Lower Secondary School Students of Matia Block of Goalpara District, Assam.”
The study has been undertaken by the researcher has the following delimitations
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Kumar & Ritu (2013) studied on “Social Maturity of Senior Secondary School
Students in relation to their Personality” and found that there is a positive relationship
between social maturity and personality of senior secondary school students. There is
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no significant difference between social maturity of male and female secondary school
students. There is no significant difference between personality of male and female
secondary school students.
Sevak, D.D. (2016) studied on “ Study of Social Maturity self control and adjustment
of higher secondary school students” and found that there is significant difference
between Gujarati and English medium and science and arts stream with the dimensions
of work orientation, ability to take stress, social commitment, communication and
social tolerance in respect of social maturity. There is significant difference between
boys & girls with the dimension of work orientation, communication, cooperation and
social commitment in respect of social maturity. There is no significant difference
between Gujarati & English medium and science & arts stream excluding the
dimension of work orientation, ability to take stress, cooperation and social tolerance
in respect of social maturity. There is significant difference between Gujarati and
English medium and boys & girls with the total level of social maturity in respect of
social maturity.
Mishra, A., Dubey S. & Kumari, M. (2017) studied on “A Study on Social Maturity of
Adolescent in Sultanpur City” and find that maximum number (66.66%) boys
respondent were had high social maturity and (70%) girls respondent were had high
social maturity. As per data most of the (68.33%) respondent had high social maturity.
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The result shows that majority of boys sample (36.66%) respondent had high social
maturity who belonged to the urban area in location and in girls sample (33.33) percent
respondent had high social maturity who belonged to the rural area in location.
3. Methodology
3.1 Methods
The researcher has used Descriptive Survey Method for the present study. The
study is descriptive in nature. Descriptive studies are more than just a collection of
data; it involves in measurement, classification, analysis, comparison and
interpretation. So, the investigator chooses the Descriptive Survey Method to collect
the valid and reliable data.
3.2 Tool Used
A Social Maturity Scale by Nalini Rao(2018) is used for the present study.
In this present study the researcher has used the Social Maturity Scale by
Nalini Rao (2018) having 90 items and the dimensions are personal adequacy,
interpersonal adequacy and social adequacy. The response options available for the
items are: strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree with the scores of 4, 3,
2 and 1 for positive items and 1, 2, 3 and 4 for negative items respectively. For
determining the reliability of Social Maturity Scale, test-retest reliability was applied
and reliability was found to be .98.
3.3 Population
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is boys and 1029 is girls and the researcher has taken the class IX students of Matia
block as a population.
3.4 Sample
In this study 200 samples are taken from which 100 is boys and 100 is girls by
using purposive sampling method from the Government High School of Matia block of
Goalpara district, Asaam.
The researcher studied level of social maturity of the lower secondary students
with the help of mean, median, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis. Difference
of social maturity in terms of gender is also analyzed with the help of z-test. Objective
wise analysis of data is presented below:
4.2. Objective 1
To study the level of social maturity of the lower secondary school students of
Matia block of Goalpara district, Assam.
In order to analyze the first objective percentage values are calculated to study
the overall level of social maturity of lower secondary school students of Matia block
of Goalpara district, Assam as shown in table 4.1
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No of Students
1 Very High Level
Maturity
2 High Level Maturity
Table 4.2: Level of social maturity of lower secondary school students of Matia
block of Goalpara district, Assam
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From the above table regarding the first objective that is to study the level of
social maturity of lower secondary school students of Matia
Matia block of Goalpara district,
Assam and it has found that mean of 200 samples of lower secondary school students’
is 212.76 and median is found 221. Standard Deviation for the same sample is 36.68.
The divergence from normality i.e. skewness and kurtosis are also analyzed for the
same sample. Value of Skewness is found -0.93
0.93 and it is negatively skewed
skewe from the
normality that means the Normal Probability Curve is inclined more to the left. Value
of kurtosis is found 0.68 and the curve is Platykurtic and it means there are few
individuals whose scores are near to the average score for the particular sample group
and the Normal Probability Curve representing such a distribution becomes flatte
flattened
in the middle.
4.3 Objective 2
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In order to study the difference of social maturity of boys and girls of lower
secondary school students of Matia block of Goalpara district, Assam the following
null hypothesis has been formulated.
Hypothesis (1)
In order to test the formulated null hypothesis the mean, standard deviation and
z test of boy’s and girls’ social maturity are calculated.
Table 4.3: Difference of Social Maturity between Boys and Girls of Lower
Secondary School Students of Matia Block of Goalpara District, Assam
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250
200
150
Boys
100 Girls
50
0
No of Mean Standard Z-test Critical
Sample Deviation Value
-50
Figure 4.3: Graphical Representation of the Difference of Boys and Girls of Social
Maturity of Lower Secondary School Students of Matia
Matia Block of Goalpara
District, Assam.
The researcher comes to the findings and discussion after analyzing the data.
The main objectives of the present study are to find out the level and difference of
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social maturity of lower secondary school students of Matia block of Goalpara district,
Assam. The major findings are-
This study shows that the most of the lower secondary school students of Matia
block of Goalpara district, Assam have average level of social maturity. This study is
supported by related studies conducted by Wartynghah(2013) had found average social
maturity among the secondary school students of Shillong town. Again this study is
not supported by the related study conducted by Mishra, A., Dubey, S. & Kumari, M.
(2017) had found high social maturity among the adolescents in Sultanpur city. This
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study has found that there is no significant difference between the male and female
students regarding social maturity of lower secondary schools of Matia block of
Goalpara district of Assam and it is supported by the related study conducted by
Kumar, D. & Ritu (2013) has found no significant difference between social maturity
of male and female secondary school students. This study is not supported by the
related study conducted by Sing, R., Pant, K. & Laitonjam, V.(2013), Wartynghah
(2013), Sevek, D.D. (2016), Mishra, A., Dubey, S. & Kumari, M. (2017) and found
that there was significant difference between male and female regarding social
maturity.
5.4 Conclusion
The findings and discussion of the study reveals that most of the lower
secondary school students have average level of social maturity. In the distribution of
the social maturity most of the scores are high and average score and the Normal
Probability Curve is negatively skewed which is more inclined to the left. From the
study it is found that there is no significant difference of social maturity of lower
secondary school students of Matia block of Goalpara district, Assam in terms of
gender.
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