The Method of Revelation of Pupils’ Emotional Maturity in Modern Education

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the pupils’ problem of emotional maturity. Here we examine the definition of emotional maturity in native psychology. Developed model describes the reaction in emotional situations according to which the situation produces a reaction (an emotion) by cognitive, affective and conative variables. The higher the emotional maturity of the child is, the greater are the emotional reactions corresponded to the emotional reactions of adults, the smaller is the number of impulsive reactions. 498 pupils of 8–16 years participated in our experiment. Each pupil answered to the questionary specially elaborated for this research, which contained 20 questions and 4 variants of answers. This methodology touches on of the rich emotional senses – soreness. After elaboration we received the significative correlations between the pupils' points and their age r=0,5 (p<0,05) what proved our hypothesis about age-related conditionalism of variables between the situation and the reaction. We did not find out any significative correlations between the pupils' points and their academic progress (the middle measured correlation is r=0,21 (p<0,5) what can testify the deficiency of straight influence of child's intelligent level to his emotional sphere.