


A healthy emotional development cultivates in emotional maturity. Emotions have strong link with urges, needs and interests. The emotions are a way of acting, as a way of getting along in the world, they may be constructive and destructive. Emotions are basic primeval forces by nature to enable the organism to cope up with circumstances which demand the utmost effort for survival. Introduction Emotional pressure is increasing day by day at adolescent stage. and private school students no significant difference in the emotional maturity level of boys and girls of senior secondary schools of Chandigarh. The findings of the study revealed that there was not any significant difference in various areas of emotional maturity of govt. and private senior secondary schools of Chandigarh. The study was conducted on a group of 200 students, 100 boys and 100 girls from govt. However, insignificant differences had been observed on the sub-variables Home Adjustment, Health Adjustment and Educational Adjustment.International Indexed, Referred Research Journal, ISSN-2250-2629, January,2013 Research Paper - The present study investigated the emotional maturity of adolescents of Chandigarh. Concludingly from the findings that significant differences were present among combat sport athletes (Boxing, Judo and Wrestling) on the sub-variables of Adjustment i.e., Social Adjustment, Emotional Adjustment and Total Adjustment. In a nutshell it can be said that from the findings that insignificant differences were found among combat sport athletes (Boxing, Judo and Wrestling) on the sub-variables of Emotional Maturity i.e., Emotional Unstability, Emotional Regression, Social Maladjustment, Personality Disintegration, Lack of Independence and Emotional Maturity (Total).

For testing the hypotheses, the level of significance was set at 0.05. Where F values were found significant LSD (Least Significant Difference) Post-hoc test was applied to find out the direction and degree of difference. One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was employed to find out the intra-group differences. The level of Adjustment was measured by applying Adjustment Inventory prepared by A.K.P. To measure the level of emotional maturity among subjects, Emotional Maturity Scale constructed by Singh and Bhargava’s (1988) was administered. All the subjects, after having been informed about the objective and protocol of the study, gave their consent and volunteered to participate in this study. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the subjects. To obtain data, the investigator had selected Seventy Five (N=75) male Inter college level combat sport athletes of 19 to 25 years of age to act as subjects. The researchers of this study aim to know about the role of emotional maturity and adjustment in performance of combat sport athletes.
