An Empirical study on Emotional Maturity among Teacher trainees and its Importance.

Abstract Emotional maturity is a process which guides oneself to successfully balance ones entire emotional spectrum and thereby taking responsibility as to how one feels about oneself and see the world around. Hence, it is essential for teacher trainees to show emotional balance when they deal with the students around them. This paper tries to investigate emotional maturity among 4 year integrated teacher trainees and 2 year B.Ed teacher trainees based on their duration of course and gender. The data was collected using self-constructed emotional maturity scale and data was analysed using SPSS (Statistical package for Social Sciences) software. The paper discusses the results and states its importance for teacher trainees