Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

MENTAL HEALTH AMONG PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS

Dinesh Kumar

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 Mental health is an important dimension of health, for enjoying every state of living satisfactorily individual need to be mentally healthy as mental health can lead to many psychophysiological imbalances, but as participation in regular quality physical education program and sports can have positive effect on mental health. The present study aims at studying mental health among college going active and inactive youth students 100 students (45 physical education, 53 from other professional courses) of 18-28 year of age were purposively selected from Lovely Professional University Punjab India. Data was collected using mental health inventory by Jagdish and A.K. Srivastava (1983) and statistical interpretation of the data was done using descriptive and t-ratio at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study revealed that college going youths were having poor mental health and there was no significant difference was observed between active and inactive groups.

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Dinesh Kumar MENTAL HEALTH AMONG PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS Global Journal For Research Analysis, Vol.5, Issue : 6 JUNE 2016


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