Mental Health and Social Adjustment among Urban and Rural Middle School Girls

Abstract

Mental health is the key word for our total happy existence. To acquire this every individual works very hard. In fact, it is an need of the time and much in demand, and it is fully co – related with social adjustment. Alfred Adler had asked the whole world to adjust   with each other for their survival on the earth due to less land and over water of sea. The main purpose of this research was a study of mental health and social adjustment among middle school girls. The present study was designed to investigate mental health and social adjustment problem among middle school girls. The study was conducted on 100 students of VIII standard randomly selected from 10 schools of Sultanpur District. To assess the adjustment problem of middle school girls checklist was used prepared by R.K Ojha with the help of bell’s adjustment inventory and a Nagpal and Sen Wellbeing scale was used to assess the level of mental health. Mean significant difference between mental health and social adjustment in middle school girls students’ was calculated result revealed. There is a significant difference between Middle school girls in rural as well as Urban area. There will be significant difference of adjustment problem of middle school girls in urban and rural schools. There will be significant relationship between  area wise adjustment  and mental health problem of middle school girls in urban and rural area. There will be significant co relation difference between mental health and social adjustment of middle school girls in rural and urban schools which is -0.135 which is negative and low degree.