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| Published: September 30, 2019
A Study of Mental Health among Competitive Exam Aspirants
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Shivchhatrapati College, Pachod, Aurangabad, Maharashtra
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DIP: 18.01.092/20190703
DOI: 10.25215/0703.092
ABSTRACT
The present study aimed to compare male and female competitive exam aspirants on six dimensions of mental health: emotional stability, overall adjustment, autonomy, security–insecurity, self-concept, and intelligence. A purposive sample of 100 aspirants (50 males, 50 females), aged 18–25 years, was selected from coaching institutes and self-study groups. Data were collected using the Mental Health Battery (Singh & Gupta, 2005). Statistical analysis using the t-test revealed significant gender differences across all dimensions, with female aspirants scoring significantly higher in emotional stability, overall adjustment, autonomy, security–insecurity, self-concept, and intelligence.
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Mental Health, Emotional Stability, Overall Adjustment, Autonomy, Security–Insecurity, Self-Concept, Intelligence, Competitive Exam Aspirants, Gender Differences
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, Satonkar, S.D.
Received: September 15, 2019; Revision Received: September 20, 2019; Accepted: September 30, 2019
Mr. Sandeep Dhananjay Satonkar @ sdsatonkar@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.092/20190703
10.25215/0703.092
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