Emotional Maturity and Loneliness as Correlates of Life Satisfaction among Adolescents

Abstract

<p><em>Emotions which are considered as a basic factor of all relationships 1are very powerful and to a very great extent they control our behaviour, thoughts and all other aspects of life. The behaviour and thought processes are directly influenced by the past experiences and early developmental stages. Emotion is the feeling aspect of consciousness characterized by a physical aspect like physical arousal, behaviours that reveal emotion to the outside world, and an inner awareness of feelings. Healthy emotions motivate us and give us energy for appropriate action. Unhealthy emotions are either overly intense or suppressed.</em></p><p><em> Smiston in 1974 defined “Emotional maturity is a process in which the personality is continuously striving for greater sense of emotional health, both intra-physically and intra-personally” (as cited in Singh & Bhargava, 1990). Kaplan and Baron describes a emotionally mature person as having the capacity to withstand delay in satisfaction of needs, ability to tolerate a reasonable amount of frustration, has belief in long-term planning and is capable of delaying or revising expectations in terms of demands of situation, has capacity to make effective adjustment with themselves, members of family, his peers in the school, society and culture. Maturity is not only the capacity for these attitudes and functioning but also it is the ability to enjoy them fully (as cited in Singh & Bhargava, 1990). According to Hollingworth (1928) an emotionally mature person will be capable of responding in gradation or degree of emotional responses, he does not respond in all or none fashion, but keeps within bounds. He will be able to delay his responses as controlled with the impulsiveness of young child. And he will also be able to handle self-pity (as cited in Singh & Bhargava, 1990).</em></p>

Emotional Maturity and Mental Health Among New Couples Referred to Pre-Marriage Health Center in Karaj, Iran

“…In line with this study, other studies have come to similar conclusions (24). Unlike the results of the present study that showed a lower emotional maturity on women in comparison to men, results in other studies conducted showed that gender had no effect on the level of emotional maturity on youths and adults (25), while a study indicated that emotional maturity in adolescent girls and female university students are more developed in comparison to their male counterparts (23).…”

“…A study was conducted regarding emotional maturity on students showed that students were very unstable in terms of emotional maturity (22). Owing to the impact of emotional maturity on marital satisfaction (11) and satisfaction in life (23), it is necessary that adolescents, parents, educational administrators, and counselors should be more sensitive with regards to emotional maturity (5).…”

Developing a Structural Model of Psychological Well-Being Based on Fear of Negative Evaluation by Mediating Loneliness in Female Adolescent Students with Psychosomatic Problems

“…The results also show that the second hypothesis of the study showed that feeling lonely in relation to fear of negative evaluation has a mediating effect on psychological well-being, which is the research of Gollwitzer et al (2018), Momeni et al (2016 The lengths of social relationships and social anxiety were shown to be consistent and also with the researches of Wang, Mann, Lloyd-Evans, Ma, Johnson (2018), Johns et al (2016, Gandaharizadeh et al (2018), Setayeshi et al (2018). , Jenaabadi et al (2017) and Shaheen et al (2014) that the relationship of loneliness with social skills and mental well-being Cognitive behavior is also consistent with research by Maričić, Štambuk (2015) who demonstrated the mediating role of loneliness in the relationship between social anxiety and subjective well-being.…”

“…Defined (Borawski, 2018). Social skills-based research indicates that there is a relationship between feeling lonely and overly self-centered, lacking in respect for other people, being unacceptable to friends, which is more prevalent among female subjects (Johns, Mathew & Mathai, 2016). Loneliness can be a strong predictor of health and quality of life (Beutel et al, 2017) and may be associated with internal despair, poor social support, limited social networking, interpersonal skills shortages, and frequent psychiatric hospitalizations (Chrostek, Grygiel, Anczewska, Wciórka, Świtaj, 2016).…”

Impact of Emotional Immaturity on Mental Wellbeing and Physiological Symptomology in Emerging Adults: Mediating Role of Distress Tolerance

“…This study found that there is a significant negative relationship between mental wellbeing and emotional immaturity. Thus, greater the emotional immaturity, lower will be the mental wellbeing as well as life satisfaction (Johns et al, 2016). Research suggests a positive correlation between emotional maturity and mental wellbeing, and a negative correlation between emotional immaturity and mental wellbeing in adults (Chavda, 2018;Sekhukhune, 2008;Spindler et al, 2016).…”