INTRODUCTION:

Emotional Maturity is a process in which the personality is continuously striving for greater sense of emotional health both intra psychically and intra personally^1.An Emotionally mature person is one who can keep a lid on feelings.^2.Emotional maturity is the ability to bear tension and it is the ability to develop high tolerance for disagree circumstance.³Boys and girls of superior intelligence have better emotional maturity. Superior intelligence boys do well on the emotional maturity than girls. Residence (urban, semi-urban and rural) does not link with emotional maturity.⁴Emotional maturity among college female students found that the individuals who scored higher neuroticism are having a low level of emotional maturity⁵.

“Study involvement is defined as a degree of affect or feeling of being actively involved in one's own learning process”. Involvement in studies not only makes the learning a pleasant activity but also yields enhancement in learning outcomes of higher order and develops positive attitudes towards learning and facilitates creative productivity. Study Involvement is a process by which the skills, capacities and competencies of the students are enhanced.³

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

Design and sample:

The research design adopted for the present study was quantitative descriptive approach and the study was conducted among 290 Nursing students (B.Sc. (N), M.Sc. (N), PBD (N)) in College of Nursing, JIPMER, Puducherry. Sample size is estimated with expected population of students with prevalence rate of study involvement of 63.38% ⁶ and the sample size is estimated at 95% of confidence level and 5% precision. We have selected all the Nursing students from the college of nursing, JIPMER and the estimated sample size in the study was 290 and the hence the estimate was more precise.

Description of research instruments and techniques – Includes 3 sections as follows;

Section A: Socio demographic proforma:

This section deals with socio demographic characteristics. It includes variables such as Age, Sex, Year of the student, Religion, Parents Occupation, Income, Locality, Type of the family, Size of the family.

Section B:

Questionnaires (Standardized): Study Involvement Inventory consists of 40 questionnaires.

Section C:

Questionnaires (Standardized): Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS) consists of 48 questionnaires in 5 domains.

Score interpretation of instrument

Study involvement Inventory consists of 40 questionnaires:

This scale consists of 40 alternative statements with the options of Yes, Undecided and No. The scores are 2, 1, 0 and interpreted as following:

Category	Score Range
High involvement	63-80
Average involvement	53-62
Low involvement	16-52

Emotional Maturity Scale-48 questionnaire in 5 domains:

In this scale Five possible modes of responses are provided such as Very Much, Much, Undecided; probably and Never with the scores of 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1. The participant should read each statement carefully and mark tick in ANY ONE of the five alternative response modes to indicate student level of agreement with the content of the statements. The score are interpreted as following;

Category	Score
Extremely Emotionally Mature	50-80
Moderately Emotionally Mature	81-88
Emotionally Immature	89-106
Extremely Emotionally Immature	107-240

Data collection procedure:

After obtaining from Nursing Research Monitoring Committee, JIPMER and the Institute Ethics Committee (Human studies) and the Permission was obtained from the Principal, college of nursing, JIPMER. Eligible study participants were approached at College of Nursing during their free hour. Background of the study was explained to the participants and written informed consent was obtained. A proforma was given to each participant for collecting socio-demographic data (age, gender, education, marital status, residence.)

Study involvement Inventory (SII) was used to assess the study involvement of Nursing students. Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS) to assess the emotional maturity of the Nursing students. Data collection was done for 3 days. First day BSc Nursing students and second day M.Sc. Nursing students and third day post basic diploma in nursing students are approached class wise by each investigator. The data collection was done between12 to 1pm for all the participants

Data analysis:

Data were entered in Microsoft excel. SPSS version 20 was used and analyzed the descriptive and inferential statistics.

· Categorical variables such as year of the student, sex, religion, parents’ occupation, type of family, income and size of family will be expressed as frequency and percentage.

· The continuous variables such as age, study involvement and level of emotional maturity will be expressed as mean with standard deviation or median with range

· The association of study involvement and level of emotional maturity of all Nursing students with selected socio demographic factors will be performed by using chi square test.

· All the statistical variables will be carried out at 5% level of significance and p value<0.05 will be considered as significant.

Pilot study:

Pilot study conducted among 10 students who met inclusion criteria from the Nursing College, JIPMER, and has been not included in the main study. The study was feasible, and the instruments were reliable. No modification made based on the pilot study.

RESULTS:

Among the 290 nursing students the findings of study involvement and the emotional maturity are as follows;

Figure-1 Shows level of study involvement among nursing students

Figure 1 Shows percentage wise distribution of level of Study involvement among nursing students. Majority of the Nursing students had low level of study involvement 77.2%, average level of study involvement 21% and a smaller number of the students had high level of study involvement 1.8%.

Figure-2 Shows level of emotional maturity among Nursing students

Figure 2 Shows percentage wise distribution of level of Emotional maturity among nursing students. Majority of the Nursing students had moderate level of extremely emotionally immature 63.1%, below half of the numbers of students had emotionally immature 20%, extremely emotionally mature had 9% and very a smaller number of the students had moderately emotionally immature.

DISCUSSION:

A total of 290 Nursing students above18 years studying in Nursing College were participated in the study. Among these 290 students, majority of them were under the age of 18-25 yrs. (57.6%). A majority of the gender were female (82.8%) and majority of the students are studying in B.Sc. (85.2%). A majority of them are living in town (40.3%), and most of them were single (96.9%). And the majority of the students were Hindu (79.7%).

The first objective was to assess the study involvement and level of emotional maturity of nursing students studying in Nursing College:

The level of Study Involvement in Nursing students was assessed, among 290 students above 18 years of age studying in Nursing college, the result shows that 77.2 % of students having low Study Involvement and 21% of the students were having average involvement and only 1.8% students are having high Study Involvement. The level of Study Involvement was assessed on the base of SII (study involvement inventory). The level of Emotional Maturity in Nursing students was assessed among 290 students above 18 years of age studying in Nursing college, the results shows that 63.1% of students having extremely Emotionally Immature and 20% of the students were having emotionally immature, and only 9% students are having extremely emotionally mature. The level of Emotionally Maturity was assessed on the base of EMS (Emotional maturity scale)

The findings supported by a study done by S. Kalaiselvan, and Maheshwari⁷ conducted a descriptive research study on Emotional Maturity among the post graduate students at Perambalur, Tamil Nadu. This study findings revealed that (45.5 %) have moderate level of Emotional Maturity, (30%) of the respondents have high level of Emotional Maturity and (24.2%) of the respondent have low level of Emotional Maturity.

The second objective was to identify the association between Study Involvement and level of Emotional Maturity with selected Socio Demographic factors:

The present study revealed that there is no significant association with the age and Study Involvement but age is significantly associated with the emotional maturity of and there is a significant association between Study Involvement and level of Emotional Maturity with religion. The findings supported with a study on Emotional intelligence in Nursing students conducted by Barkhordari M and Rostambeygi P⁸. The findings reveled that there was no statistically significant difference between the fresher’s and senior students’ scores.

The present study revealed that there is no significant association between Study Involvement and level of Emotional Maturity with gender but education is highly significant with Study Involvement and significant with level of Emotional Maturity. The findings were supported by a study done by Sharma R, Prabhakar K, Madnavat AVS⁹on study of relationship between emotional maturity & adjustment for school students of X^th standard from Govt. Schools of Loharu, Rewari, Narnul, Mahendargrah with the sample of 100 students (50 boys and 50 girls). This study revealed there was no significant difference between boys and girls studying in secondary classes.

The present study revealed that there is high significant association between Study Involvement and residence and significant association with level of Emotional Maturity and residence but there is no significant association between Study Involvement and level of Emotional Maturity with marital status. The findings supported by a study done by Govindarajan K¹⁰on Study Involvement and Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students. The study shows that there was a significant relationship between Study Involvement and academic achievement with respect to boys, girls, private, rural and urban secondary school students.

SUMMARY:

Out of 290 Nursing students:

· Majority of the participants 57.6% (167) were between 18-25 years and most of them 85.2% (247) were studying B.Sc. Nursing.

· 82.8% (240) of participants were females and 96.9% (281) were single.

· Most of them 40.3% (117) were residing in town and 79.7% (231) belong to Hinduism.

· Majority of the participants 77.2% (224) were having low study involvement, average 21% (61) and 1.8% (5) were with high involvement.

· Most of the students 63.1% (183) were extremely emotionally immature, 20% (58) were emotionally immature, 9% (26) were extremely emotionally mature and 7.9% (23) were moderately emotionally mature.

CONCLUSION:

Majority of the students were found with extremely emotionally immaturity and low study involvement which insisted on improvement in the emotional maturity level and study involvement level.

From this study we conclude that special classes can be conducted and coping mechanisms can be explained to improve the study involvement level and emotional maturity level among the Nursing students.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

Sincere thanks to Mrs. Gomathi A, for the constant support, valuable suggestions and guidance and a heartfelt gratitude to all the participants.

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Received on 20.08.2019 Modified on 07.09.2019

Asian J. Nursing Education and Research. 2019; 9(4):555-558.

DOI: 10.5958/2349-2996.2019.00120.4