Volume : X, Issue : V, May - 2020

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH STATUS OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN PROFESSIONAL AND NON-PROFESSIONAL COURSES

Sweta Sonali

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Education is one of the significant instrumental factors to social, economic, cultural, moral and spiritual development of a country, therefore people should be educated so that they can contribute their best in nation building. This can be possible only when they will be mentally sound and healthy.The present investigation has been undertaken with an intention to find out the difference between mental health status of students enrolled in the professional and non–professional courses. For this purpose total 120 students of higher education level were selected from different professional and non–professional colleges of Patna University, through simple random sampling method. Mental Health Inventory developed by Jagdish and Srivastava (1983) was used for the data collection. The result revealed that mental health of professional students was found to be sound as compared to that of non–professional ones. However professional and non–professional male students didn’t differ significantly in their mental health status while professional female students have comparatively better mental health than the non–professional female one. It is concluded that more professional courses should be included in the curriculum and students should encouraged getting such type of education as they can contribute their best for the nation building. Important measures should also be taken in order to improve the mental health status of the students who are not enrolled in the professional courses

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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH STATUS OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN PROFESSIONAL AND NON-PROFESSIONAL COURSES, Sweta Sonali INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-10 | Issue-5 | May-2020

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