ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 3

A study of mental health of sports and non-sports senior secondary school students

  • Author:
  • Pooja Rani, Neeru Malik, Gagandeep Thapa
  • Total Page Count: 13
  • Page Number: 219 to 231

*Guru Teg Bahadur College of Education, Melarkotla, Punjab, India

**Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector-36, Chandigarh, India

***Dev Samaj College of Education, Sector-36, Chandigarh, India

Online published on 21 September, 2017.

Abstract

The present study has been conducted by employing descriptive survey method of research by the investigator. The present investigation was primarily designed to determine the Achievement Motivation and Mental Health of sports and non-sports students. The independent variable in the present investigation is mental health and dependent variable is achievement motivation. For this study, sample of200 students of Chandigarh i.e. 100 of sports students and 100 of non-sports students were taken. Further out of these 50 boys and 50 girls of both the streams were taken. Mental Health Battery by Singh and Gupta (2000) were used to collect data. The results significantly indicate that there is positive relationship mental health of sports students and there is a significant difference between mental health of sports and non-sports students.

Keywords

Mental Health, 10+2, Sports & Non-Sport students