Relationship between Emotional and Social Maturity Problems in Adolescents with Depression and Social Anxiety Disorder

Puberty and adolescence is a period of increasing stress in life that causes a kind of anxiety and psychological instability in adolescents. The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between emotional and social maturity problems in adolescents with depressive disorder and social anxiety.

The type of this study was descriptive and its method was correlational. The statistical population included all male and female high school students in Rasht in the academic year 2017-2018, 542 people, from whom a sample of 220 people was selected by stratified random sampling. Goldberg Depression Inventory (1979), Singh & Bahargawa (1990) Emotional Maturity Questionnaire, and Watson & Friend (1969) Social Anxiety Inventory were used to collect data. Research data were analyzed using Pearson parametric statistics and multivariate regression.

The results showed that there was a significant and inverse correlation between emotional and social maturity with social anxiety (-0.81) and depressive disorder (-0.72) (P˂0.01).

Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that emotional and social maturity is a unique feature of puberty and adolescence and these variables are able to predict the problems of emotional and social maturity. Among teenagers.