1Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Ch. Devi Lal University, Sirsa
2Ph. D. Research Scholar, Department of Education, Ch. Devi Lal University, Sirsa
Online published on 27 September, 2019.
The study had been designed to examine the mental health of senior secondary school students. For this, a sample of 600 senior secondary school students from different government and private schools (Government = 300, private = 300) was drawn. The students participated in the study ranged in the age group of 16 to 18 years with the mean age of 17 years. All the selected subjects were administered with Mental Health Battery (MHB) by Singh and Sengupta. The data thus obtained were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, the most prominently by t-ratio. The obtained findings revealed significant difference between government and private senior secondary school students. Government school students scored significantly higher mean score on overall adjustment and security-insecurity dimensions of Mental Health Battery but private senior secondary school students obtained higher mean score on emotional stability and overall mental health as compared to government senior secondary students but two groups not differ significantly on rest of the dimensions i.e. autonomy, self-concept and intelligence.
Mental Health, Emotional Stability, Overall Adjustment, Autonomy, Security-Insecurity, Self-Concept, Intelligence
