Impact of Emotional Immaturity on Mental Wellbeing and Physiological Symptomology in Emerging Adults: Mediating Role of Distress Tolerance.

The present study investigated the impact of emotional immaturity on mental wellbeing and physiological symptomology with mediating role of distress tolerance in emerging adults. To recruit the research participants, convenient sampling technique was employed. Sample comprised of 382 emerging adults of age between 18 to 25 years (M = 21.55, SD = 2.55). The Warwick- Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (Tennant et al., 2007), Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (Gierk et al., 2014), Emotional Maturity Scale (Singh & Bhargava, 1990), and Distress Tolerance Scale (Simons & Gaher, 2005) were used to measure the variables under study. The results implied that emotional immaturity emerged as a negative predictor of mental wellbeing and a positive predictor of physiological symptomology. Whereas distress tolerance emerged as significant positive and negative predictors of mental wellbeing and physiological symptomology; respectively. Distress tolerance had a significant role as a mediator in the relationship between emotional immaturity, mental wellbeing, and physiological symptomology. Gender emerged as significant moderator in relationship between emotional immaturity and mental wellbeing. The current research provided the insight of how emotional maturity and distress tolerance can enhance mental wellbeing and reduce the physiological symptomology in emerging adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]