A Comparative Study of Mental Health of High School Level Hindi and English Medium Students

Positive mental health improves the quality of life, educational achievement, relationship and psychological resilience. In the contemporary era, mental health is the most serious problem of our country. Due to rapid scientific progress and industrialisation attention is not paid on the mental health and mental problems are increasing day by day. That is why these days mental health is considered more important rather than physical health because physically unhealthy person causes problem for himself or for his family only while mentally unhealthy person causes problems for the whole society. In the present study, the researchers attempted to compare the mental health of High School Level Hindi and English medium students of Ghaziabad city by using Mental Health Inventory made by Dr. Jagdish and Dr. Shrivastava. Statistical techniques used by the researchers for analysis of the data were mean, SD and Z test. Results of the study revealed that no significant difference was found by the researchers between mental health of High School Level Hindi and English medium students.