| Sumario: | The evolution of digital era has affected almost every aspect of contemporary life. The internet is now an essential tool for people and it plays a significant role in our daily life, socially, politically, economically, and even emotionally. Adolescents being an integral part of the study, have the higher possibilities of getting affected more. The excessive use of internet leads to health problems such as anxiety, depression, school absenteeism, fatigue, unemployment, decreased job productivity and social isolation. The objectives of this study were to assess the social and emotional maturity of internet using school going adolescents in selected schools of metropolitan & non-metropolitan city and to associate the social and emotional maturity scores with selected demographic variables. Conceptual framework of the present study was based on Early Adolescence Framework proposed by Blum Robert. Review of literature related to assessment of social maturity and emotional maturity of adolescents and internet usage was retrieved. Survey research design with convenient sampling technique was used on 192 school students. Data was collected by using Social and Emotional Maturity Scales (Emotional Maturity Scale by Dr Yashwir Singh & Dr Mahesh Bhargave and Dr Nalini Rao's Social Maturity Scale). The final study was carried out in private and government school in Delhi and Haryana in the month of October 2023. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyse the data and conclusions were drawn based on findings of the study which indicated that the average social maturity and emotional maturity was 65 percent and 64.3 percent respectively and the study subjects were socially and emotional immature.
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