Emotional maturity, daily hassles stress and economic status among college students

ABSTRACT

Background: The present study compared emotional maturity and daily hassles stress of male and femalestudents coming from different economic status.Methods: The sample consisted of 200 graduate students from Ahmednagar city from Maharashtra. Theage range of the sample was 18-22 years. One hundred of these were from low economic status andremaining 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 DailyHassles Scale (Lazarus & Folkman1989). A 2x2 ANOVA showed significant main effects as well asinteraction 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 itssignificance in the entire study. The mean differences are not significant. Students from low economicstatus were significantly higher on daily hassles stress than the students from high economic status (F (1,196) = 10.11, p < .001).Conclusion:Girls and boys did not differ in daily hassles stress. Student from high economic students weresignificantly higher on emotional maturity than low economic status students. Girls were not significantlydifferent on emotional maturity than boys.