Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 8, Issue 1, DIP: 18.01.103/20200801 DOI: 10.25215/0801.103 http://www.ijip.in | January- March, 2020 © 2020, Archana V & B.Sudhakaran; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Influence of emotional maturity on emotional regulation and perceived stress among corporate workers Archana V 1 *, B. Sudhakaran 2 ABSTRACT Background: Emotions are central to one’s life to perceive, experience and express himself to others and to communicate about themselves and their feelings to others ; every person has the ability to experience, express and control one’s emotion, but how a person does this depends upon the level of emotional maturity he or she possess. Research studies reveal that people with higher emotional maturity tend to handle their emotions efficiently and are found to experience less stress or perceive a situation to be less stressful. Aim: The aim of the present study is to find out the influence of emotional maturity on emotional regulation and perceived stress among corporate workers. Methods and Materials: 60 corporate workers of both genders, within the age group of 24-40, with at least minimum of 1 year work experience, were selected using purposive sampling method. Emotional Maturity Scale (EMS) Singh and Bhargava (1990), Emotional Regulation Scale (ERQ) Gross,J.J.,& John.,O.P(2003) and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) Cohen (1983) were administered. Results and conclusion: Results indicated that there is a relationship between emotional maturity, emotional regulation and perceived stress. It also indicated that there is influence of emotional maturity on emotional regulation and perceived stress; however, this needs to be established further in the upcoming research studies. Keywords: Emotional Maturity, Emotional Regulation, Perceived Stress, Corporate workers. According to Sternberg (1998), an emotion is a feeling comprising physiological and behavioural (and possibly cognitive) reactions to internal and external events. Emotions plays a significant role in one’s day to day life. The emotional aspect of maturity is the most important factor in the development of the comprehensive mature personality, which is the strength to actualize individual abilities within the frame of social demands. According to Walter D. Smitson (1974) emotional maturity is a process in which the personality is continuously striving for greater sense of emotional health, both intra physically and intra-personally. Kaplan and Baron elaborate the characteristics of an emotionally mature person, says that emotionally mature person has the capacity to withstand 1 M.Phil Clinical Psychology Scholar, Institute of Mental Health, Chennai- 600010, Tamil Nadu, India. 2 Assistant Professor cum Clinical Psychologist, Institute of Mental Health, Chennai- 600010, Tamil Nadu, India. *Responding Author Received: February 28, 2020; Revision Received: March 16, 2020; Accepted: March 31, 2020