National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The Young adulthood is a period distinctive period in the life span and also a difficult one. The changes and turmoil of This phase also causes for both positive and negative long-lasting effect on lives of young adults. While dealing and adapting said roles, changes and situations, young adults may leads to poor/good adjustments as well as to poor/good mental health. Therefore, the proposed study aimed to assess the mental health status of students of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttarakhand. A Total number of 240 students were selected as sample of research through simple random sampling method from three colleges of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. To achieve research objective, a tool namely MHB-Mental Health Battery (Physiological Health, Daily Routine Activity, Emotional Status, Emotional Management and Intelligence) was developed and thereafter reliability and validity of the tool was calculated before its application (Singh and Mishra, 2020 and Mishra and Gir, 2013, 2014). Suitable statistical methods i.e. frequency, percentage, p value and correlation were applied on collected data to derive the research results. After analysis and comparing the data, the finding of research reflected that poor mental health was quite evident among majority of young adults. As far as gender was concerned, status of poor mental health was higher among female respondents as compared to male. It was found that majority of young adults between the age group of 18-21 years portrayed poor mental health as compared to young adults between the age-range of 22-25 years. A significant association was found between mental health of young adults and selected causative factors i.e. age, gender.
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