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Comparative Study
| Published: November 20, 2018
Mental Health and Depression among Slum Dwellers
Associate Professor, Post Graduate studies in Sociology, Maharani's Arts College for Women JLB road, Mysore, India
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DIP: 18.01.045/20180604
DOI: 10.25215/0604.045
ABSTRACT
The present study is aimed at exploring the differences mental health and depression among slum dwellers. Sample of the study consisted 100 of Hindu and Muslims. In this research tools used mental health inventory by Jagadish and depression scale by Stanford (2001) is used for the purpose of study. Results indicated, there is significant difference in over all mental health and depression between male and female in Hindu and Muslim community. Male sample have higher the depression and low mental health than the female representatives in both community.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2018 Vijay. B. T
Received: October 22, 2018; Revision Received: October 25, 2018; Accepted: November 20, 2018
Dr. Vijay B.T @ mscbrain@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.045/20180604
10.25215/0604.045
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Published in Volume 06, Issue 4, October-December, 2018