Psychological well-being and mental health of students

Abstract

Psychological well-being and mental health is usually conceptualized as some combination of positive affective states such as happiness and functioning with optimal effectiveness in individual and social life. This study was conducted to investigate the difference in PGI General Wellbeing and Mental health in students of join and nuclear family. Total 120 samples of join and nuclear family were taken from Shree arykul vidhyalaya from Bhavnagar city (Gujarat). Their samples were taken along with the data collected with the help of ‘PGI General Wellbeing scale.’ This scale was constructed by S.K.Varma & Anita varma(1989). The original Hindi scale was translated and standardized in Gujarati by gaurang vyas (2009). And ‘Mental health Inventory (MHI)’ this inventory was constructed by Dr.Jagdish and Dr.A.K. Shirvastava(1983). The original Hindi inventory was translated and standardized in Gujarati by Bhavna Thummer (2009). The data was used to obtain the Psychological wellbeing and mental health measurement of the Subjects. The collected data was statistically analyzed with the help of ‘F’ and ‘r’ test. The results show that there is no significant difference between join and nuclear families’ students on PGI General Wellbeing (F =1.07). There is no significant difference between Male and Female students on PGI General Wellbeing (F =1.13). There is no significant difference between type of family and gender on PGI General Wellbeing (F = 1.76). There is significant difference between join and nuclear family on Mental health (F = 11.97). There is significant difference between Male and Female students on Mental health (F = 14.79). There is no significant difference between type of family and gender on Mental health (F = 2.66).