The Degree of Emotional Maturity of College Students in the Educational Setting of Unida

Christian Colleges A.Y. 2022-2023

Emilio Jesus R. Caceres, Aries M. Camacho, Keith Allaine E. Ditan,

Jona Therese C. Esquillo, Trixie Ann S. Purihin, Kyle Angelo A. Wael

Senior High School Department, Unida Christian Colleges

Practical Research 2

Mr. Paul John Abig

January 31, 2022

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Age is what usually first comes to the mind of an individual when we talk about maturity,

however, that shouldn't be the case when it comes to emotional maturity since age is not an

accurate indicator of it. Emotional maturity is the ability of a person to handle, keep up and

understand not just their own emotions but also the emotions of people around them (Bastos,

2019). It is also characterized as taking responsibility, showing empathy, not being afraid to be

vulnerable, setting boundaries, recognizing mistakes, and accepting needs (Lamothe, 2020). On

the other hand, emotionally immature individuals are described to have an impulsive behavior,

demands attention, will resort to hunting other people, narcissists and avoids responsibilities

(WebMD, 2021).

Even though the development of an individual varies from one person to another,

according to Shameer (2022) there are a lot of factors that affect and contribute to the emotional

development of a person such as their environment, heredity, relations in the family and many

more. In addition, it was noted in a research from Cho et al. (2015) that in pursuit of academic

excellence, socioemotional skills and emotional maturity are sacrificed. Which is why this study

will focus on the state of the respondents in an academic setting in the institution of Unida

Christian Colleges, the locale of this study, since students are mostly exposed in this kind of

environment.

In this proposed case study, the researchers can figure out the role of college in the

emotional cognition of a student which can manifest their whole behavior. As Grover et al.

(2020) stated that emotional processes influence learning, thoughts, and behavior. With this

development, it helps to understand how emotional cognition relates to students' perspectives on

learning and entrepreneurial pursuits.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The purpose of this study is to ascertain how much impact does the current educational

setting of the respondents have on their emotional maturity. The intended respondents are college

students who are under first-year and fourth-year at the aforementioned institution. The

following questions will primarily guide this research:

1. What will be the average degree of the respondents' emotional maturity?

2. Is there any difference between the emotional maturity of freshmen and graduating
college students?
3. Which dimension of emotional maturity has the highest percentage among respondents?

SCOPE AND DELIMITATION

The research study is limited to college students in the institution of Unida Christian

Colleges. The students who are taking their first and fourth-year are the chosen participants and

the primary subject of this research. Since their current educational environment would be one of

the most influencing factors for their behavior, the researchers want to emphasize the

significance of understanding the degree of emotional maturity in this study. Due to the large

proportion of college students who fall between the ages of 18 and 25, these individuals are

regarded as young adults, where the majority of changes that affect their emotional development

and maturation start to take place.

The students who are taking their second and third year are not included by the

researchers since we believe they are already assimilating the college environment and will

undergo a variety of transitional experiences. Furthermore, the researchers only seek to

determine whether such an educational level can actually influence the emotional maturity of
both graduating seniors who are expecting to leave college with a roller-coaster of emotions and

experiences and freshmen who still aren't familiar with the environment.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study aims to determine the degree and extent of the emotional maturity of College

Students with regards to academic setting. The findings of this research will contribute as

supplementary knowledge to the existing information and will provide deeper understanding

about this subject matter. Specifically, the researchers believe that the following are the ones

who are likely to benefit hugely from this study:

For Young adults, this research will be able to help the young adults in order to

understand themselves more, be aware of their own emotional maturity, improve their overall

relationships with the people in their environment and most importantly, know how they can

develop themselves to be a more emotionally mature individual since they are only a few years

away in facing the “real world”.

For Teenagers and Upcoming Adults, this study will assist adolescents to discover how

to be more mindful as they age so that they can become emotionally intelligent and mature when

they become adults in the near future. It is because their age range is usually deemed by the

society as “immature” no matter what type of maturity it is.

For Students, this study will raise their awareness in order to be more knowledgeable

about emotional maturity and how their environment mainly academically affects this. They will

be able to understand the perspective and the state of our respondents which are also students. It

will enlighten and be beneficial to them in a way they may extend the prior knowledge with the
information given, if ever they might like to deepen the understanding and ideas in regards to the

topic.

For Educators, this study will be of huge help for them in order to understand the

current mindset and emotional state of their students. Through the results of this research, they

can adjust their teaching approach, know how to develop healthy boundaries and relationships,

and to be able to teach their students in a more appropriate way.

For Parents, this study will be helpful especially to parents whose children are young

adults since through this, they can have additional knowledge about the development of their

children. In addition this can serve as a guide for them to help their children properly in handling

their feelings maturely and help them to accept who they truly are but still help them to

emotionally develop themselves.

For School Counselors, through this study, they can have further knowledge about what

emotional maturity is and they will know more about the students who will approach them when

any of them need their counseling services as they are the ones that can help the students to be

more successful and can provide them solutions about problems that relates with emotions. This

can help them to improve their counseling programs so that they can create and construct it in a

way that will be the most effective for the students.

For Future researchers, this will aid researchers in the near future who will conduct a

study that relates emotional maturity and provide them with a valid, acceptable and credible

source of information that can help support their own study. This study will help them to have a

guide for them to get their target results in an easier way.

 For the General Public, different communities will be well-informed about what

emotional maturity is and be more aware of the development of the minds of young adults along

with their socioemotional status.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Understanding Emotional Development

Having the ability to think and wonder about certain things is reasonable since the

adolescents are gaining more consciousness as they are trying to set some own beliefs based on

what they observe and reflect on their societal life. These learnings, whether significant or not,

become a basis for evaluating, analyzing and making decisions pertinent to their everyday

dilemmas (Magalona & Salting-Sadsad, 2016) which plays a huge role in an individual’s mental

and emotional growth and progress. Living in the phase of adolescence instills individuals with a

more developed thinking as a result of their intense curiosity and heightened awareness of their

surroundings. With the highly dynamic mental activity of young individuals, it helps them to

comprehend the pragmatic aspects of living which has an influence on their mindset and the

ethics they have been asserting. Hence, thinking is not a mere mental operation, but it

presupposes rationality and intelligence (Inductivo, 2013).

In different aspects, admiration of people for being successful in the future would have

more phases to finish. According to Fiske (2014) as cited in Cleofe et al., (2016) the succession

of life doesn't come in just one blink, the improvements and progress must be applied into self-

development and not on the environment and the people they are associated with. It can be

equated with the emotional development of an individual since this growth needs to go through a

lot of processes and transitions in order for it to progress. However, according to Camiloza et al.
(2016), the relationship between the self and the other depends on how humans interpret the

other. It is still up to them to decipher the meaning of maturity most especially what emotional

maturity really is, as they will be affected by its impact on their lives.

As stated by Jose and Swany (2022) that maturity can be a response of awareness to

handle the current situation. Based on the authors that the psychological term of “mature” is

“more flexible” – as a factual information, that trait is highly privileged because they have the

ability to balance their capacity when it comes to their emotions. Moreover, as with emotion,

there are different types of it that can be classified as love, disgust, fear, happiness, hatred, joy,

anger and so on. However, not all students, the respondents of the said study, can create an

wiseful decision to fix issues that they can encounter, that's why emotional maturity is important

to be advised and motivated in school learning. According to Dhakal (2013) maturity must be

vision as motivation, it cannot be called emotional maturity if the person keeps finding excuses

in order to justify their wrong as a correct term too. Also the students need to learn how to self-

control because not all people can understand their specific actions. As college students keep

acting as a role model for younger students, they must exercise to widen their knowledge and

perception for every trait that they may encounter.

Emotional Maturity among Young Adults and Students

The Emotions of a person plays an important role in the understanding, perception and

learning of a person alongside with their behavior (Jose & Swamy, 2022). Furthermore, they

concluded in their study that the gender of an individual has nothing to do with their emotional

maturity since they compared the maturity of their Male and Female respondents and then they

showed no significant difference between each other. It was also mentioned that the majority of

their respondents whose age ranges between 18 to 23 are “extremely emotionally mature”
through the use of the Emotional Maturity Scale by Singh and Bhargava. However, contrasting

to the findings of the aforementioned study, a research by Prathibha and Ashok (2017) that used

the same scale states that there is a difference between the emotional maturity between the Male

and Female respondents in the age range of 17 to 20. Regardless of the difference between the

results regarding the emotional maturity of the genders, one similarity between the two studies is

that they both concluded that a majority of their respondents are extremely emotionally

immature.

Emotions cannot be implied as an easy state of human beings. In the stage of life wherein

needed to control the temper just to put things right in every brighter way. According to a study

by Dangwal and Srivastava (2016) that Emotional Maturity is part of a person’s life and is

something that is irreplaceable – it is accompanied by its feelings, distinctive thoughts, and

psychological matters. As the authors stated in their study, there are two forms of development

namely “internal” and “external” development in emotional maturity. By the word itself, the

internal interprets a mind of a person to decide to replace the negative behaviors in being able to

lead an character development while the external development implying the correction of actions

to put in a right path for every certain circumstances. When it comes to behaviors, social media

can be a cause of influence by that either negative and positive as it is one of the factors that can

affect the emotional maturity of a person. This would serve as their instrument to express

themselves by publishing some status describing what they feel, to capture a photo in every

moment of their lives whether it’s sad or happy. Furthermore, using social media can be

dangerous without taking limitations in order to avoid that incident and be more responsible and

implement comprehension.
 According to Tamang (2018) Emotional Maturity could lead the students to beat up the

frustration when it comes to academics. If the student is already emotionally mature, they will

have the ability to comprehend that easily absorbed to their mind so that they can reach their goal

average at a time. The purpose of the said study is for the author to discover the individuals

which meant for the students their real identity and what is the attitude that can be replaced,

negative behavior cannot be tolerated. Some of the students can't find themselves and leave

wondering what are their consecutive abilities and purpose of life. Being a student is also a

draining responsibility upholding its pressure to reach the standard average. To secure and

reliability of the study, the author shows an importance to understand emotional maturity.

Factors that Affect the Emotional Maturity of an Individual

In a study conducted by Herwandha and Prastuti (2021) it was proven that both age and

attachment together have an effect on the emotional maturity of an individual. However, these

two variables are only a small fraction of a whole of the factors that can affect the development

of emotional maturity. In addition, the said study showed that compared to age, the attachment of

a person to their parents and peers contribute more to the growth of an individual emotionally.

Which is why the outcome of the said study implies that it is important for everyone to build and

surround themselves with healthy relationships with people close to them since even these small

things can affect the emotional maturity of a person positively, negatively or even both.

According to Rathus (2014), attitudes formed through direct experience may be stronger

and easier to recall, but we also acquire attitudes by observing, listening to, or reading the works

of other people. Which is why individuals have their own degree of emotional maturity since

every one of us have their own experiences and perception of those things. The things that one
can encounter as they go with their lives as well as the people that they are close with can affect

how they develop emotionally.

SYNTHESIS

In recent research, similar findings from Jose and Swamy (2022) and Prathibha and

Ashok (2017) concluded that adolescents and young adults are extremely emotionally immature

which suggests that there are a lot of individuals who are entering the adult stage of their life

while still being immature. This can be a negative thing since emotional maturity is something

that is really important in one's life. Through emotional maturity, one can be able to handle their

responses to things that happen in their everyday lives better than if they leave it to their intellect

alone.

Each individual has their own experiences in their everyday lives that are part of their

journey in achieving emotional intelligence and findings also suggest that the environment of an

individual is one of the factors that can affect Emotional Maturity. Also, other certain factors

such as one's gender, age, attachment to the people around them and many more have very little

effect on their emotional maturity unlike what most people assume. In this study’s review of

related literature, it was highlighted how important emotions are and how an individual handles

their own since this can define both their emotional intelligence and maturity.
 METHODS

In this quantitative research, the researchers will focus more on the measurements and

numbers in order to achieve the main goal and purpose of the study which is to determine the

emotional maturity of the 1st Year and 4th Year College Students in this study’s locale and how

it relates to the educational setting that they are all in. With this, the researchers will collect all

the needed data through the use of a survey questionnaire called Emotional Maturity Scale or

EMS developed by Y. Singh and M. Bhargava in 1990 to produce primary data which will be

specific and will be used in this study. Afterwards, once the data is sufficient enough to continue

this study, the researchers will then analyze the collected data through interpreting the answers of

the respondents into its average to compare their significant differences.

DESIGN

Descriptive research is an appropriate choice when the research aim is to identify

characteristics, frequencies, trends, and categories (McCombes, 2019). The researchers chose

this design since this study focuses only on the emotional maturity of the chosen College

students in the institution of Unida Christian Colleges. It also assists to describe the components

of maturity in order for the respondents and even the readers of this study to understand

emotional maturity on a deeper level. Furthermore, correlational research design, on the other

hand, aims to find out the relationship between two or more variables that can either be positive

or negative (Bhandari, 2021) which is far from the objective of this study.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Maturity are two things that are closely related to

each other and even used interchangeably which results in the confusion between the two.

Emotional Intelligence is the understanding of not just your own emotions but also to be able to

understand the emotions of other people, on the other hand, Emotional Maturity is the

application of that particular understanding. That is why, being only emotionally intelligent does

not guarantee that an individual is emotionally mature, however, Emotional Maturity can only be

developed if one has Emotional Intelligence (Beard, 2012). In Daniel Goleman’s Emotional

Intelligence Theory, this is what is mainly tackled. As its name suggests, it was created by

Daniel Goleman, an author, scientific journalist, and psychologist, in his book “Emotional

Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ” in 1995 which popularized the concept of

Emotional Intelligence (Channell, 2021).

According to Tritsch (2021), in the theory of Daniel Goleman, he broke down what

Emotional Intelligence is into 5 major components:

● Emotional Self-Awareness - it is the ability of a person to know their current emotions

and the reasons behind them and this also describes the ability to be aware of other

people’s emotions.

● Self-regulation - ability to adapt in different bursts of emotions and control them by

maintaining a positive mindset even when unexpected things happen in order to stop

impulses.
 ● Motivation - through this, one can focus on the goals that they have through this inner

passion, be able to enjoy the process of achieving objectives, and at the same time show

perseverance in times of obstacles.

● Social Skills - describes the relationship of an individual to other people along with

networks that are built all around them and the way they keep and maintain them. It

induces interactions and communication within people of different backgrounds.

● Empathy - this is the ability of an individual to respond to the emotions of other people

and being able to show concern, sense what they feel and allowing them to share those

feelings.

The five components of Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence Theory can also be

connected to the five dimensions of Emotional Maturity Scale or EMS by Singh and Bhargava,

the instrument that will be used in this study. These five dimensions namely: Emotional

instability, Emotional regression, Social maladjustment, Personality disintegration and Lack of

Independence are closely related to the questions composing the EMS. In this study, Daniel

Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence Theory can serve as a guide for the researchers in order to

know what emotional maturity really is and to measure the degree of it among College students.

In addition, intelligence will be valueless if emotions can sway us easily. Our emotions are what

guides us, individuals, when we are experiencing difficulties and even milestones in life that are

too important for us to leave our mind alone to handle it. Every emotion that we have offers us a

unique readiness to act in different kinds of situations (Goleman, 1995) which implies that we

should focus on emotional intelligence and maturity and shows how important they can be in our

lives.
 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

This framework represents the insight of the researchers regarding the event being

explored as well as its connection to the theory above.

Emotional self-
awareness

Self-regulation

Educational Emotional
Motivation Setting Maturity
Emotional
intelligence

Social skills

Empathy

In the framework presented above, the educational setting represents the main factor that

the researchers believe can affect the components of emotional intelligence. This model shows

the process from Emotional Intelligence to acquiring Emotional Maturity that connects it and the

theory presented with specific accuracy to this particular study. Also, the components of

Emotional Intelligence are needed in order to step forward and result with Emotional Maturity.

This only aims at rational characteristics to discover what would be the attainable solution of

emotions, behavior and the mind individually – for College Students in Unida Christian

Colleges.
 As what is stated in the theory presented, Emotional Intelligence is classified into five

components. First, emotional self-awareness, which is being well aware of one’s own and other

people’s feelings without selfishness. Self-regulation which is the ability to control behavior and

actions towards individuals. Motivation is the ability to have an effective way of doing tasks and

the ability to act professionally. Social Skills, without that ability then individuals don’t have

enough skills to communicate properly. Lastly, empathy is an important needed aspect of a

human’s behavior. Untold thoughts can be defined by sharing with the people who are

trustworthy and also understand their own perspective of life. These are only five of the things

which should all be practiced by students in their environment, especially in an educational

setting that depicts their Emotional Intelligence that, in the future, is expected to turn into

Emotional Maturity.

DEFINITION OF TERMS

For an improved understanding regarding this study, the following are defined in the context of

this research.

Degree. The amount or extent of something that occurs. In this study, it is used to

measure the emotional maturity of the respondents.

Emotional Intelligence. Ability of an individual to understand, accept, express and

handle their own emotions and being able to empathize with the emotions of people around

them.

Emotional Maturity. One of the types of maturity that focuses on the emotional aspects

of an individual, how they handle positive or negative emotional events in their lives.
 Emotional Maturity Scale. Also known as the EMS, is a questionnaire that was created

by Singh and Bhargava and the instrument used in this study to determine the degree of

emotional maturity of the respondents.

Young Adults. Individuals whose age ranges between 18-25, the years after

adolescence. A stage in life wherein people are expected to become mature and independent

members of the society.

INSTRUMENT

Survey questionnaire will be employed as the research tool of this study. Herefore, the

Emotional Maturity Scale or EMS, a self-report tool developed by Dr. Yashvir Singh and Dr.

Mahesh Bhargava in 1990 which are used in numerous studies that involve emotional maturity.

It is a scale questionnaire wherein the respondents will be given 5 choices which are the

following:

5 - Very Much

4 - Much

3 - Undecided

2 - Probably

1- Never

The numbers correspond to the point that the choices represent since in this scale, the

higher the score that a respondent will get, the less emotionally mature they are and a lower score

will mean that the respondent has a high emotional maturity (Nortje, 2020). There are a total of

48 questions in the survey which are divided into five dimensions namely, Emotional Instability
(10 items), Emotional Regression (10 items), Social Maladjustment (10 items), Personality

Disintegration (10 items), and lastly, Lack of Independence (8 items).

Through the use of this particular method, the researchers will be able to convey to the

respondents that they are free to answer the questions comfortably since they can select the

response that they can relate the most without any outside interruptions. With this, the

researchers will be able to collect more accurate results that will aid to reach the goal of this

study.

RESPONDENTS AND LOCALE

The researchers will select 50 individuals from the college level. Two year levels will be

chosen, namely the freshmen and graduating year. Each year level will include 25 respondents

where 15 will be obtained personally while the other 10 people will come online. They will take

answering surveys.

The study's participants will be chosen based on the following criteria:

1. The respondent must be a college student of the institution of Unida

Christian Colleges.

2. The respondent must be a freshman or graduating student.

3. The respondent must already be 18 years old and above.

Respondents will be provided informed consent before each survey questionnaire

distribution. To attain better outcomes, the respondents are allowed to share whatever they wish

with us throughout the survey. Additionally, those who consented will be immediately enrolled

in the study, while those who did not were given the option to withdraw. Respondents have the
option to drop out of the study at any time. As a result, all of the information they supplied for

the study's benefit will be removed from the final report. The respondents' names will never be

published in the study. All information will be kept private.

Unida Christian Colleges is a place where students of various courses and programs can

pursue their dreams. The locale was chosen since the majority of college students seem to have

an emotional affection and development as they’re studying on tertiary level. Right now, many

students appear to be wondering about the meaning of college life. The main purpose of this

research is to focus on the investigation's impact of the educational setting of the respondents.

DATA GATHERING PROCEDURE

The following are the steps that the researchers will execute in order to collect sufficient

data needed to complete this study with accurate and credible information:

1. The researchers will apply the Simple Random Sampling method in selecting the

respondents where since it is a method of probability sampling, the respondents will be

chosen randomly. In this method, any bias in selecting the respondents is decreased since

any of the individuals who are part of the population has an equal chance to be selected.

The limited number of the people in the population makes this method fit in this study.

2. The researchers will use the Emotional Maturity Scale, an adapted scale from another

study, for the survey questionnaire that will be distributed to the respondents.

3. The researchers will then hand out the aforementioned questionnaire to the respondents.

3.1. In the online setting, the researchers will give the surveys to the randomly selected

individuals through the use of the email address of the respondents and/or through online

messaging platforms (e.g. Facebook Messenger) in the preference of the selected

 respondent. If the selected participant has questions regarding the survey, they can

contact any of the researchers through the email address that will be stated in the first part

of the form.

3.2. In the offline setting (face-to-face), the researchers will hand out the printed survey

forms personally to the selected individuals. If the selected participant has questions

regarding the survey, they can ask directly to the researcher that gave them the survey

questionnaire form.

4. In the first part of the survey, the researchers will include the general and brief

background about the study in order for the respondents to accurately fill out the surveys

along with the verbal consent (face-to-face) and/or written consent (online) that they are

willing to answer by choice. If the randomly selected individual is not willing to answer

the questionnaires, then the researchers will randomly select another respondent from the

population until they find someone who is willing to do so.

5. Subsequently, after all respondents fill out the forms and after the sufficient amount of

data is met, the researchers will then proceed in analyzing the data collected.

DATA ANALYSIS PROCEDURE

In this study, the researchers will gather and compile all the collected data first and will

then examine all the answers of the chosen respondents. The researchers will apply ratings as one

of our analyzing tools. Ratings are used to record and evaluate answers that were provided by the

respondents from the range of options that was given to them (Lumoa, 2021). The researchers

will utilize a 5-scale rating that will represent the degree of emotional maturity.

1 Mature

2 Mature
 3 Moderate

4 Immature

5 Immature

In this 5-scale rating, both numbers 1 and 2 will fall under the Mature Level that denotes

that they are fully developed; numbers 3 and 4 will fall under the Immature Level which indicate

that they are still expressing lesser signs of growth; while number 3 stands for Moderate wherein

the respondents will not be distinguished as mature or immature but they will be categorized as

those who are still in the transition stage from being immature to fully mature.

After the said step, the researchers will interpret the answers of the respondents in each

and every question into a percentage which is commonly used in statistics, it is represented by

the symbol “%” and derived through dividing the number of people who selected the same

answer (e.g. number of respondents who chose “Very Much” in the Emotional Maturity Scale

survey) to the total number of respondents and multiplying it to 100 (Korb, 2013) in order for the

researchers to determine the frequency of a particular choice being selected by the respondents.

Formula:

Where:

P = Percentage

x = number of particular people who selected the same answer

N = total number of respondents

 Thereafter, the researchers will employ rankings wherein the different data collected will

be ordered from smallest to largest (Kent State University, 2022) and incorporate it with the

dimensions based on the standardized survey of “Emotional Maturity Scale” as observed in the

research instrument of this study. The researchers will rank whether where the answers of the

participants fall between the five different factors of maturity.

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APPENDIX

RESEARCH SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE

Emotional Maturity Scale Survey
Name (optional):
Year Level:
Course/Program:
Age:
In this survey, we, the Grade 12 researchers from Humanities and Social Sciences strand,
want to determine the Emotional Maturity of young adults in an educational setting and you are
one of the College students in Unida Christian Colleges that fit into the criteria to be a
respondent.
Please put a checkmark under the corresponding letter that you relate the most to.

VM - Very Much

M - Much

UD - Undecided

P - Probably

N - Never
 Emotional Instability VM M UD P N

1. Are you involved in mental botheration?

2. Do you get frightened about the coming situation?

3. Do you stop in the middle of any work before

reaching the goal?

4. Do you take help of other persons to complete your

personal work?

5. Is there any difference between your desires and

objectives?

6. Do you feel within yourself that you are short

tempered?

7. Do you feel that you are very stubborn?

8. Do you feel jealous of other people?

9. Do you get wild due to anger?

10. Do you get lost in imagination and daydreams?

Emotional Regression

11. If you fail to achieve your goal, do you feel inferior?

12. Do you experience a sense of discomfort and lack of

peace in mind?

13. Do you teasing against the others?

14. Do you try to put the blame on others for your

lapses?

15. When you do not agree with others, do you start

quarreling with them

16. Do you feel yourself as exhausted?

17. Is your behavior more aggressive than your friends

and others?

18. Do you get lost in the world of imaginations?

19. Do you feel that you are self-centered?

20. Do you feel that you are dissatisfied with yourself?

Social Maladjustment

21. Do you have a strained companionship with your

friends and colleagues?

22. Do you hate others?

23. Do you praise yourself?

24. Do you avoid joining in social gatherings?

25. Do you spend much of your time for your own sake?

26. Do you lie?

27. Do you bluff?

28. Do you like very much to be alone?

29. Are you proud by nature?

30. Do you shirk from work?

Personality Disintegration

31. Even though you know some work, do you pretend

as if you do not know it?

32. Even if you do not know about some work, do you

posed as if you know it?

33. Having known that you are at fault, instead of

accepting it, do you try to establish that you are
right?

34. Do you suffer from any kind of fear?

35. Do you lose your mental balance (poise)?

36. Are you in the habit of stealing anything?

37. Do you indulge freely without bothering about moral

codes of conduct?

38. Are you pessimistic towards life?

39. Do you have a weak will?

40. Are you intolerant about the views of others?

Lack of Independence

41. Do people consider you as undependable?

42. Do people disagree with your views?

43. Would you like to be a follower?

44. Do you disagree with the opinions of your group?

45. Do people think of you as an irresponsible person?

46. Don’t you evince interest in others work?

47. Do people hesitate to take your help in any work?

48. Do you give more importance to your work than

others work?