Mental Health among Day Scholar and Hostlers College Students

Vol-3 | Issue-08 | August-2016 | Published Online: 05 August 2016    PDF ( 286 KB )
Author(s)
Parishi Kabra 1; Dr. Nalini Totuka 2

1Research Scholar, Department of Human Development, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan (India).

2Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development, The IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan (India)

Abstract

The word mental health means a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life. The study was designed to find out the mental health among day scholar and hostlers college students. Altogether 100 adults in the age group of 18-25 years were purposively selected. Out of which 50 were day scholar and 50 were hostler in each category. These were subdivided into 25 boys and 25 girls. The research tool of mental health scale was developed by Arun Kumar Singh, Ph.D Professor and Alpana Sen Gupta, Ph.D. Lecturer department of psychology was used for the present study. The data was analyzed by using Mean, SD and t test. The result shows that there is no significant difference was found between the mental health of hostlers and day scholar.

Keywords
Mental health, Day scholar, Hostlers.
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