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Comparative Study
| Published: August 23, 2020
Mental health of adolescents of working and non-working mothers
Department of Psychology, Shri Varshney College, Aligarh, U.P. India. Google Scholar More about the auther
Department of Physics, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. Google Scholar More about the auther
Department of Psychology, Shri Varshney College, Aligarh, U.P. India. Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.068/20200803
DOI: 10.25215/0803.068
ABSTRACT
The present era is an era of many problems. At present, most people have suffered many problems as economic, social, mental and physical, etc. Mental health is an important aspect of a person’s life because not only is a healthy mind inhibited by a healthy body, but a healthy mind also creates a healthy body. This paper examines the mental health of adolescents of working and non-working mothers with the age mean of 15.38. A further aim of this study to explore both mental symptoms and somatic symptoms of on mental health of adolescents. A sample of 70 students (35 students of working mothers and 35 students of non-working mothers) is selected from different schools at Aligarh district. The mental health check-list constructed by Pramod Kumar (1992) is used for data collection. In this study for data analysis mean, standard deviation (SD) and t-test are used. The result shows that there is a significant difference between adolescents of working and non-working mothers on mental health. Further results indicate the significant difference between adolescents of working and non-working mothers on mental symptoms but not somatic symptoms.
Keywords
Adolescents, Mental Health, Working Mother, Non-working Mother
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.
© 2020, A Singh, H Kumar H & S Kumari
Received: July 13, 2020; Revision Received: August 20, 2020; Accepted: August 23, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.068/20200803
10.25215/0803.068
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 3, July-September, 2020