Emotional Maturity, Anxiety and Interpersonal Communication among Adolescents with Separated and Non – Separated Parents

Family is essentially made of those people who look after, who play a crucial role in our upbringing and who teach us such lessons in life. This thesis is intended to explore the major effects on adolescents with separated parents in terms of Emotional Maturity, Interpersonal Communication, and Anxiety. The researchers also compare variables to adolescents with non-separated parents. The scope of this study was given to 50 adolescents ages 17-21 with separated parents and 50 who were in intact families from Lyceum of the Philippines University- Batangas (N=100, 50 for non separated and 50 for separated).The researchers used quantitative method. Anova and Pearson-R were used to determine the results. The results show that the three variables have significant differences on separated parents. While Anxiety has a bigger impact on those adolescents with separated parents than with the non separated, Interpersonal Communication has no significant difference on adolescents with non separated parents.

Keywords: Anxiety, emotional maturity, interpersonal communication