Mental Health among Married Women Students

Abstract

The present study was designed mainly to investigate the mental health among those married female students who stay at home and who stay outside i.e. hostel etc. To realize the main objective the study was conducted on 50 female married students in two groups of those who stay at home (Home dweller) and who stay outside in hostel or PG (Hostel dweller). For this purpose two groups were selected one of those who stays at home and other of those who reside outside of home. Each group consist 25 participants. Data was collected from Girls hostel of MDU Rohtak and Rohtak city of Haryana. Data was collected by using personal datasheet and mental health scale by Bhatt and Geeda (1992). t- test was applied to see the significance level in both groups of married female students. Results show that there are significant differences between both groups. Differences were also found in their demographic characteristics such as level of education and stream of study.