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Comparative Study
| Published: December 25, 2019
A comparative study of mental health of juvenile delinquent and normal adolescent
Assistant Professor, Department of psychology, Millat College Darbhanga, Bihar, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Associate Professor, Head Department of Psychology, Millat College Darbhanga, Bihar, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.096/20190704
DOI: 10.25215/0704.096
ABSTRACT
Mental health plays a very significant role to decide the quality of life. Mental health is an expression of emotions and signifies a successful adaptation to a range of demands. A growing body of evidence indicates that mental disorders and criminal events are becoming increasingly numerous and serious among college students in developing countries like India. In today’s World of rapidly–rising crime in both rate of juvenile drug use and the rate of admission to residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children. The aim of the study is to find out the difference between juvenile delinquent and normal adolescent with six dimensions (emotional stability, over-all adjustment, autonomy, security-insecurity, self-concept and intelligence) of mental health battery developed by Arun Kumar Singh & Alpnana Sen Gupta. Samples of this study were selected 20 for juvenile delinquent and 20 for normal adolescent of both (male and female). Result of t-value show that total mental health scores were found significant (p<.01) but mean scores of some dimensions like: emotional stability, over-all adjustment, autonomy, security-insecurity and self-concept were found more effective in normal adolescents and dimension of intelligence was better in juvenile delinquents.
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.
© 2019, K Chaurasia & Md. I Ali
Received: December 04, 2019; Revision Received: December 21, 2019; Accepted: December 25, 2019
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.096/20190704
10.25215/0704.096
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Published in Volume 07, Issue 4, October-December, 2019