A Study of Emotional Maturity Social Maturity and Intelligence of Prospective Teachers in Relation to Their Teaching Aptitude

Abstract

The present study is aimed to study the emotional maturity, social maturity and intelligence of prospective teachers of Punjab state in relation to their teaching aptitude. Total nine objectives were framed to study the Teaching Aptitude, Emotional Maturity, Social Maturity, and Intelligence of prospective teachers. To study the relationship between Emotional Maturity and Teaching Aptitude, Social Maturity and Teaching Aptitude, Intelligence and Teaching Aptitude of prospective teachers. To find out the significant predictors of Teaching Aptitude from Emotional Maturity, Social Maturity and Intelligence, and to study the effect and interaction effect of gender, marital status and locality on Teaching Aptitude of prospective Teachers. After studying the review of literature the researcher framed five major hypotheses to statistical verification of the facts, these were stated as 1) There is no significant relationship between Emotional Maturity and Teaching Aptitude of prospective teachers, 2) There is no significant relationship between Social Maturity and Teaching Aptitude of prospective teachers, 3)There is no significant relationship between Intelligence and Teaching Aptitude of prospective teachers, 4) Emotional Maturity, Social Maturity and Intelligence may be the significant predictors of Teaching Aptitude of prospective teachers.5) There is no significant interaction effect of gender, marital status and locality on Teaching Aptitude of prospective Teachers. The fifth hypothesis of the study was further broken into three sub hypotheses that were: there exists no significant difference in teaching Aptitude of male and female prospective teachers, there exist no significant difference in teaching aptitude of married and unmarried prospective teachers and there exists no significant difference in teaching aptitude of prospective teachers in relation to their rural and urban locality. newline