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SELF CONCEPT AND MENTAL HEALTH OF ADOLESCENTS BELONGING TO SINGLE AND DUAL CAREER PARENTS

Abid Husain, Akbar Hussain

Abstract


Mental health problem is growing day by day and has become a serious issue particularly for the urban adolescents. Since the period of adolescents is considered to be the period of turmoil because their energy moves in different directions that push them to wrong box many times as a result their thought process get disturbed. It is observed that besides parental or family status adolescent’s wrong concept of self also aggravate the problem of mental health. Present study was designed to see the ones concept of self and mental health of adolescents of working and non-working parents.

 

Two hundred (200) male adolescents of 12-16 years age (100 single career and 100 dual career parents) were taken from different schools located in the city of Delhi. After identification of the working status of the parents participants were taken from different government run schools and were administered 80 items Ahluwalia (2002)(1) self concept scale and 55  items Jagdish and Srivastava (1983)(4) mental health inventory for the assessment of self concept and mental health of adolescents. Significant differences were found between the adolescents belonging to single and dual career parents on their concept and mental health. Adolescents from dual career parents were much superior to their single career counterparts with regard to the self concept as well as the mental health. On the basis of results it can be concluded that adolescent mental health is determined not only by their own concept but their parental status as well.

Keywords


Self concept, Mental Health, Adolescents, Single career parent, dual career parent, Health problem.

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