SRJIS/BIMONTHLY/ POONAM CHOUDHARY (928-933) OCT-NOV, 2014, VOL-I, ISSUE-VI. www.srjis.com Page 928 SOCIAL MATURITY OF ADOLESCENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR GENDER AND LOCALITY: A COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS Poonam Choudhary, Lecturer in Gsss Karola, Gurgaon Madhuri,Ph.D, Assistant professor, department of education, M.D.U. Rohtak. Social Maturity is the ability to function in an appropriate responsible manner. As adolescence is the age for an individual to express mature behavior. Social Maturity is an essential aspect for the individual as well as society. The present research study was undertaken to assess and compare the Social Maturity of Adolescents in relation to their Gender and Locality. The sample consisted of 500 adolescent students studying with 11 th and 12 th standards from rural, 250(125 female and 125 male) and from Urban, 250 (125 female and 125 male) were included in this sample. Rao’s Social Maturity scale was used to assess the social maturity. Thus obtained data was analyzed using means, S.D’s, ‘t’-test. The result revealed significant gender difference on the basis of social maturity and also reported that adolescent students belonging to rural area possess higher social maturity than those belonging to urban area. The study has implications for the parents, teachers and policy makers. Keywords: Social Maturity, Adolescent, Gender, Locality. INTRODUCTION Adolescence is the stage of development which produces a number of social problems for a person. These problems arise out of adolescent adjustment with social group. The social group expects him to be socially matured when he becomes an adolescent by establishing more mature relationship with age mates to achieve socially responsible behavior, develop Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com 4.194,2013 SJIF© SRJIS2014 Abstract