Impact of Personality on Mental Health of Adolescents among Selected Government and Aided Schools
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 4
Abstract
Adolescents in the age group 10-19 years are in transient phase of life requiring nutrition, education, counseling and guidance to ensure their development into healthy adults. (WHO 2014) The main objective of the study was to assess the impact of personality on mental health of adolescent students. Survey method of research approach was used for the present study. The population selected for the present study comprised of adolescents studying in Government/Aided Hindi medium intermediate schools and a total of six schools were selected. Sampling technique selected for the present study was Non- Probability convenient sampling and total sample size was 300 adolescents. The tools used for data collection were Mental Health Battery (MHB) by Singh and Gupta (1978) and Eysenckâs Personality Questionnaire by Eysenck (1975). The major findings of the study revealed that approximately 41.33% adolescents had good mental health; 35.66% had average mental health, and 8.0% adolescents had poor mental health. The finding also revealed that mental health of adolescents was positively and significantly related to extroversion dimension of personality which means that extrovert had better mental health.
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Mr. Ram Kumar
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