A Study of Mental Health of the Teachers Reference to the Gender and Family Types

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to know Mental Health relationship with gender and Family Structure of the teachers. The sample of the study consisted of 120 teachers’, 60 male and 60 female with equal number of Individual and join family structure of teachers of school serving is various schools. Tools like personal data sheet, Mental Hygiene Inventory standardized by Dr. D.J. Bhatt and Miss Git Gida (1992) This Scale revised by Siddhapura (2006) was used for data collection were administered to randomly selected teachers. Obtained information was statistically analyzed by ‘t’-test were discovered. According to the received results the gender and Family Structure have significant effect on the Mental Health of teachers. The result reveled that there is more Mental Health in male teachers then female teachers. The teachers whose Family Structure is joint family have more mental health then individual family.