MENTAL HEALTH AND ADJUSTMENT OF UNDER GRADUATE STUDENTS IN RELATION TO GENDER AND TYPE OF STREAM

Abstract

Mental health and Adjustment affect the various aspects of a student's life. Mental health is the keyword for our total happy existence. To acquire this every individual works very hard. Alfred Adler had asked the whole world to adjust with each other for their survival on the earth due to less land and overwater of the sea. The main purpose of this research was to study the mental health and adjustment of under graduate students in relation to gender and type of stream. The idea behind this investigation is to compare the mental health and adjustment of students studying in government and private under graduate colleges of Jammu. Thus this study is a step in this direction of understanding the mental health and adjustment of under graduate students. The study is quantitative in nature and the sample consists of 200 under graduate students have been selected through simple random sampling from 2 government and 2 Private colleges of Jammu. Descriptive survey method was used for the present study. In this study , two standardized tools namely Mental Health Scale’ (MHS) by Sushma Talesara and Akhtar Bano (2017), having 54 items and Adjustment Inventory for College Students Scale (AICS) by A.K.P. Sinha and R.P. Singh (2007) having 102 items was used for data collection. To analyze the data, statistical techniques employed are Mean, Standard Deviation, Standard Error Mean, t- test and Pearson’s Coefficient of Correlation. There is no significant difference in the school related causes and peer group related causes and significant differences found in the home related causes in mental health of under graduate students with respect to gender. No significant difference is found in the school related causes, home related causes and peer group related causes in mental health of under graduate students with respect to type of stream. No Significant differences are found in the areas of home, health, social and educational but significant differences were found in the area of emotional adjustment of under graduate students with respect to gender. Significant difference is found in adjustment of under graduate students with respect to type of stream in the areas of home, health, social and emotional but no significant difference was found in the area of educational. Significant correlation is found between mental health and adjustment of under graduate students.