Volume : 7, Issue : 12, DEC 2021

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON MENTAL HEALTH OF RURAL AND URBAN STUDENTS

DR. MANORANJAN TRIPATHY, DR. BISWESWARI SAHU

Abstract

Background: Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. Attainment of better quality of life is the objective behind all facets of development while a balanced and buoyant environment is fundamental to the growth of mankind. 

Aim: Study was to assess between the mental health of urban students and rural students.

Methods: In study, sample has selected to match the study and help in achieving the purpose of the study. The researcher used simple random sampling for the data collection; the help of Ex post facto research collected Data. From urban four schools total students are 475 out of which 227 are Girls and 258 are boys. Similarly, from rural schools 380 students are there out of which 192 are girl’s students and 188 are boys students. In aggregate, the total population constitutes 855 students for present research with the help of The Mental Health Battery (MHB), which has been constructed by Arun Kumar Singh and Alpana Sen Gupta. It was published by Ankur Psychological Agency, Lucknow in 1983.

Statistical Techniques: Data were analyzed with the help of t-test. The statistical analysis of the research study was carried out by comparing the mental health of urban students and rural students.

Result: The result suggested that the Mental Health of urban student is much better than the Mental Health of rural students. The girls students are comparatively mentally healthy than the boys students. The urban girls students are mentally healthy than their rural counterpart. The Mental Health of urban boy’s students is far better than those of their rural counterpart. The urban girls are mentally health than the urban boys students. The Mental Health of rural girls students is considerably better than that of rural boys students.

Conclusion: To summarize, From the deep and through study of this research work we may conclude that the Mental Health of the urban students and the rural students have significant difference.

Keywords

MENTAL HEALTH, RURAL STUDENTS AND URBAN STUDENTS.

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