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| Published: December 25, 2016

An Audit of Mental Health: A Comparative Study of Adolescents

Riti Das Dhankar ,

Research Scholar, IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India Google Scholar More about the auther

Dr Asha Hingar

Professor of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.019/20160401

DOI: 10.25215/0401.019

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Mental health is an integral and essential component of health. The WHO constitution states: \"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.\" Today, it is recognized that good mental health is not just the absence of mental illness. Nor is it absolute – some people are more mentally healthy than others, whether you are mentally ill or not. In order to determine the mental health of adolescent school going children, government and private schools from the domain of Jaipur city were taken. A sample of total of 300 adolescents consisting of 150 government school adolescents and 150 private school adolescents were taken. The test used was Mental Health Battery (MHI) (Verma, J. and Srivastava, A.K. 1996). It was found that in all the dimensions of mental health, no significant difference was found for government and private school children. It is a matter of concern for all the parents, teachers and society as a whole that both the groups are poor on a mental health scale.
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Riti Das Dhankar @ riti.das.dhankar@gmail.com

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ISSN 2348-5396

ISSN 2349-3429

DIP: 18.01.019/20160401

DOI: 10.25215/0401.019

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Published in   Volume 04, Issue 1, October-December, 2016