Social maturity and loneliness among adolescents of Kashmir

Abstract

The research study was carried to explore the Social Maturity and Loneliness Among Adolescents of Kashmir. Descriptive survey method was used in the current study and the respondents were selected through simple random sampling. Adolescents in this study were secondary school students selected from District Kulgam out of which 100 were male and 100 were female students. The tools used for data collection were Social Maturity Scale (Nalini Rao, 1986) and Loneliness Scale (Parveen Kumar Jha, 2018). To analyze and interpret the data Percentage, Mean, S.D and Correlation were used as statistical techniques. The result findings revealed that 14%, 56% and 30% of students were having low, moderate and high Social Maturity. Whereas 32.5%, 51.5% and 25% of students were having low, moderate and high levels of Loneliness. A significant and negative correlation was found between Social Maturity and Loneliness among adolescents of Kashmir.