Emotional Maturity Locus Of Control And Social Adjustment Of NSS Students

INTRODUCTION: Today, the sensitivity of education on one hand and the complexity of the world on the other have made clear the importance of educating successful students at different college levels. Surely success in doing so would depend not only on the educational programs at colleges, but also on the students' personality characteristics and their capability in adjusting to the fast changing desires of the technological world. The society is where a person's physical and emotional patterns as well as his/her personality are formed, so it plays a vital role in the person's future development and progress. It is the principal duty of the societal system to allow its youth enable to create healthy relations among its members, and help its youth to become independent. An adolescent is considered as a sensitive period in an individual's life span. Adolescence is often characterized as a period of internal chaos and external careless when the adolescents smoke, take drugs, have sex and commit crimes to display their adulthood (Morffit, 1993). In addition, they have to contend with many developmental problems associated with this unique transitional stage when they experience rapid and striking metamorphosis physically, emotionally, cognitively and socially (Schacter, Gilkbert & Wegner, 2009). Further in the present competitive world adolescents are also facing enhanced difficulties or stress due to stern competition in academics, profession, peer pressures, parental expectations etc. Amidst the academic development of an individual, the adolescent is leaving behind the values of life and the ethical concern of being human. In the developing ages of adolescence it is equally important that academics should be combined with value based education and service orientation behavior should be encouraged among the individual so that in the future he can adjust better to the demands of the society and the nation. The feeling of 'we' and 'togetherness' enhances the adolescent personality and also affects their physical as well a mental health and creates a dynamics associated with their emotional, behavior and personality manifestation. Aimed at developing student's personality through community service, The National Service Scheme (NSS) is a voluntary association of young people in Colleges, Universities and at +2 level working for a campus-community (esp. Villages) linkage. NSS is an Indian government sponsored public service program. It,