MENTAL HEALTH AND ADJUSTMENT AMONG PUBLIC SCHOOL AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF ADOLESCENTS

Abid Husain, Akbar Husain

Abstract


Adolescence as commonly understood is a period of transition between childhood and adulthood, a period of empowerment and participation, a period of learning and shaping attitudinal, behavioral and social responsibility. 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 difficulties in adjustment also aggravate the problem of mental health. 

 

Present study was undertaken to examine the extent of mental health and adjustment of adolescents of public and govt. school and also to see relationship between the two variables. For the purpose 360 students of class XI and XII were selected randomly from two different types of schools. Out of total 360, 180 were public schools and remaining 180 were govt. schools. 55 items Jagdish and Srivastava (1983)(3) mental health inventory for the assessment of mental health of adolescents whereas level of adjustment among the adolescents were measured by 60 items Sinha and Singh (1993)(6) Adjustment Inventory.

 

Results indicated that mental health of adolescents among public school was slightly better than that of govt. school adolescents. Conversely adjustment of govt. school adolescents was also much better than that of public school adolescents. Results further showed direct relationship between mental health and adjustment of the adolescents belonging to the two different groups.

Keywords


Mental Health, Adjustment, Public School and Govt. School, Adolescents, Health, Adolescents health.

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