Social Maturity Among Higher Secondary Students In Relation To Their Academic Achievement

Abstract

Education is a way of increasing attractive behavior, skills and attitudes, which make help, build the personality character, and the performance of the adolescent to attain aims and goals of national life. Social Maturity is the process of developing appropriate attitudes for personal, relational, and social adequacies of a different, which are important for functioning effectively in the Society. Achievement refers to a degree or level of success that ability attained in some specific area concerning academic work. Higher the achievement more is the openings for the students and they can go for better lines and better jobs in all fields thereby bringing achievement in one’s life. This study involves to Normative Survey Method. In this study 950 higher secondary school students from Government, Government Aided, and Private schools in Dharmapuri district were selected through random sampling technique was adopted for the study. The Social Maturity scale was constructed and validated by the Investigator and the Research Guide (2019) containing fifty items. Its reliability value was 0.86. The Academic Achievement in Chemistry Prepared by Researcher and the Research Guide (2019) containing forty-five items. Its reliability value was 0.89. The data collected were subjected to statistical technique like percentage analysis, correlation and regression analysis. The results of the study revealed that the social maturity and academic achievement of higher secondary students was moderate. The results also revealed that the there is significant positive correlation between social maturity and academic achievement of higher secondary students.