Adolescence is the most crucial stage of human life. As this stage is the regulator of our well being and mental health. Good mental health can raise the achievement of a person having ordinary caliber whereas low and ill mental health may deteriorate the future of a person even having extra-ordinary caliber. The purpose of the present investigation was to examine empirically the main and interactive effect of gender, locality and type of schools on mental health of adolescents. The sample comprised 260 adolescents selected randomly from High Schools of Rohtak city. Mental Health Battery (MHB-ss) by Singh & Gupta (revised in 2008) was administered to ascertain the influence of demographic correlates of mental health. 2×2×2 factorial design was employed with two levels of gender: boys and girls, two levels of locality: urban and rural and two levels of type of school: govt. and private. The analysis was carried out by employing three way analysis of variance. The findings suggested that main effect of gender, locality and type of school was found to be associated with the mental health. First order interactions and second order interactions were found significant.
Mental Health, Demographic Correlates (Gender, Locality &Types of School)
