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| Life Satisfaction in Relation to Emotional Maturity Among Teacher Educators on The Basis of their Gender and Marrital Status | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Paper Id :
17440 Submission Date :
13/12/2022 Acceptance Date :
22/12/2022 Publication Date :
25/12/2022
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| Abstract | This paper investigates the relationship of Life satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among teacher educators. The study sample is consisted of 200 teacher educators serving in different colleges of Education of Haryana state. The relationship was examined with the help of statistical Technique namely “Karl Pearson’s Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation”. The results show that there is highly positive relationship between Life satisfaction and Emotional maturity which indicates that teacher educators who are emotionally mature enjoy their life with full extension. On the other hand emotionally immature teacher educators put the blame for their failures on others and on God also and never satisfied with their life. Teacher education programs, running at present in India, are just based on theoretical content and there is less scope of practicability. It is further suggested that there is a strong need of appropriate change so that teacher educators may be able to produce professionally balanced teachers, full of moral, secular and patriotic attitude. Thus, it is proved by the study that Emotional Maturity and Life Satisfaction are inter related and have significant relationship with each other. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Keywords | Life Satisfaction, Emotional Maturity, Human Life, Adjustment, Self Esteem. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Introduction |
Human life is a great gift of God to the humanity but advancement of modern society and race of competitions has ruined its beauty. As we know that even twins have some differences, then how can two individuals be alike? All have different adaptive conditions towards new situations. None is satisfied with his life. Less or more everyone has complaints regarding life style of oneself or others. Behind this situation, some psychological and sociological factors play vital role, i.e. emotions, maturity, adjustment, satisfaction, self esteem etc. An emotionally immature person never adjusted in his surroundings and always remains dissatisfied. He is just like a social burden on the society. To lead a happy life a well balanced personality in all respect needed because life is full of ups and downs and only an emotionally mature person, having strong will power towards adjustment may be satisfied to his life. |
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| Aim of study | 1. To find the relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among Teacher Educators. 2. To find the relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among Male Teacher Educators. 3. To find the relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among Female Teacher Educators. 4. To find the relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among Married Teacher Educators. 5. To find the relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among Unmarried Teacher Educators. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Review of Literature | Today, due to
the advent of materialism, each and every person is busy in getting what he
does not have. But in his pursuit man has actually forgotten to analyze whether
he is enjoying his life or just dragging it because during these days every
person is facing many complexities in form of anxiety, tensions, frustration
and emotional upsets in daily life. Keeping these factors in mind the
researcher gone through the following researches: Qureshi and
Bhargva (1998) studied that emotional maturity plays vital role in one’s life
to develop a balanced vision to perceive. Sharma (2000)
pointed out that emotions affect the expressive behavior of an individual and
set the direction of his life. Kaur, D. (2001)
in her study “Emotional maturity of adolescent in relation to parental
encouragement” found significant relationship between emotional maturity and
parental encouragement. Shiv, S. (2001)
conducted a study on life satisfaction in relation to personality structure and
found a significant relation in them. Satwinder
(2004) studied occupational stress in relation to self-esteem and life
satisfaction and found life satisfaction as a contributing factor in overcoming
stress. After rationally
thinking the investigator reached on the conclusion that emotional maturity
also play vital role in life satisfaction. Present study is needful in today’s
world because each and every person is affected by materialism and wants to
conquer more and more powers. Being the part of society, teacher educators are
also the passenger of same train. A teacher is a pivot around which whole
educational process revolves. Even the students have blind faith in
teachers and follow them as role model. Therefore it is important that the
teacher educators should have a balanced personality to meet the challenges of
future.
Although many researches related
to different psychological aspects have been undertaken so the researcher took
keen interest to study the relationship between Emotional Maturity and Life
Satisfaction. |
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| Main Text | Emotional
Maturity: A quality of
having self control to manage emotions, being honest about own feelings and
building trust in oneself is called Emotional Maturity. Life
Satisfaction: A measure
of a person’s well being, assured in terms of mood, achieved goals, self
concepts and self perceived ability to cope with life is called Life
Satisfaction. Hypotheses
of the Study 1. There exists
no any significant relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional
Maturity among Teacher Educators. 2. There exists
no any significant relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional
Maturity among Male Teacher Educators. 3. There exists
no any significant relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional
Maturity among Female Teacher Educators. 4. There
exists no any significant relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional
Maturity among Married Teacher Educators. 5. There exists
no any significant relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional
Maturity among Unmarried Teacher Educators. Delimitations of
the Study The sample was
restricted to teacher educators working in various Colleges of Education
in Haryana state. Method Used Survey method
was used to collect the desired data. Sample First of all,
200 Teacher Educators were selected randomly. Further it was sub divided on the
basis of gender and marital status. Tools Used 1. ‘Emotional
Maturity Scale’ by:
Dr.Yashvir Singh and Dr.Mahesh Bhargava (1988). 2. ‘Life
Satisfaction Scale’ by: Q.G. Alam
and Dr. Ramji Srivastava (2001). Statistical
Techniques ‘Product
Moment Coefficient of Correlation’ technique was applied. On the basis of
descriptive statistics following results were found. Table-1
(Showing Results of Hypothesis -1)
Table-2
(Showing Results of Hypothesis -2)
Table-3
(Showing Results of Hypothesis -3)
Table-4 (Showing
Results of Hypothesis -4)
Table-5 (Showing
Results of Hypothesis -5)
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| Conclusion | 1. In the light of Hypothesis 1, it depicts that there is a significant relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among Teacher Educators, which concludes that Teacher Educators who have high level of emotional maturity are more satisfied. They do their duty with full devotion and always remain ready to accept the challenges. On the other side the teacher educators having low emotional maturity level always put the blame on others for their failures and remain dissatisfied always. 2. In the light of Hypothesis 2, the researcher found a significant relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among Male Teacher Educators. It indicates that Male Teacher Educators, who have low level of emotional maturity always feel discomfort at their working style, remain disturbed always and consider themselves inferior to others. Sometimes they take the help of medicines for mental peace. On the other side, the Male Teacher Educators, who are emotionally sound, try to put their best in every task and finish it with full devotion which results highly satisfaction towards life. 3. In the light of Hypothesis 3, it exhibits a highly positive relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among Female Teacher Educators. It results that emotionally mature Female Teacher Educators have positive and thank God for providing such opportunity through which they could be able to give their contribution towards society. They do their job with full of extend and live a happy life. While their counterparts do not find them suitable at their working place, remain unhealthy and face sleeping disorder which results in dissatisfaction towards life. 4. In the light of Hypothesis 4, there exists a positive relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among Married Teacher Educators. It indicates that Married Teacher Educators, having high level of emotional maturity face less mental stress and aggression in their lives. In any critical situation they never hesitate to discuss personal problems with their life partners and pay due respect to their viewpoints. They always have good vibes towards their married life, They also support each others’ view point. They are highly satisfied with their married life and appreciate it in front of others. Their married life is according to their dreams. On the other hand less emotionally mature Married Teacher Educators indulge themselves more in mental botherations and feel irresponsible. 5. In the light of Hypothesis 5, it was found that there exists a significant relationship between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Maturity among Unmarried Teacher Educators which concludes that emotionally less mature unmarried Teacher Educators keep an aggressive attitude towards their friends and others. This is why, they are not much satisfied in their lives. On the contrary emotionally mature Unmarried Teacher Educators do not indulge themselves in false praises and do not get lost in the world of imaginations. They like to join social gatherings and follow the codes of conduct of the society with full respect. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Suggestions for the future Study | 1. It has been proved through the research that both Emotional Maturity and Life Satisfaction are the key factors for the development of a balanced and wholesome personality. Therefore only a well balanced teacher can be helpful to provide a better environment to the students and may try to develop all the positive attributes among the prospective teachers. 2. The present teacher education programmers in the country are heavily loaded with the theoretical content. There is a strong need of appropriate change so that it may be able to inculcate among the trainees - professional, moral, secular, and nationality respected values. Only the well balanced teachers may play the vital role to inculcate these values. |
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