a comparative study of south gujarat urban and rural secondary schools students' mental health

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A Comparative Study Secondary Schools Students’ Mental Health

Dr. Milan P. Patel

1College of Veterinary Science and A.H.,Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari

ABSTRACT Mental health of the learner is very important for efficient learning and proper development of personality. For adolescents, school is the most important setting outside the family. Students perceptions of the school environment are significantly associated with their wellbeing. Welldeveloped adolescents who were empowered with appropriate life skills have better chances of becoming healthy, responsible, and productive adults. Students are also having many mental health problems, example, exam phobia, andproblem with teacher, school- family. The purpose of the study was to compare the Mental Health status among South Gujarat Urban and Rural Secondary School Students. Subjects selected for the present study were secondary school students of soutGujarat urban and rural area. A total of 2160 boys student were randomly selected below the age of 15 years. From the city schools 1077 boys and from rural schools 1083 boys were randomly selected. The Mental Health Scale prepared by Dr. D.J. Bhatt and Ms. Geeta R. Geeda was used as a tool for the present study. The scores arrived from 1077 Urban School students and 1083 Rural School students were compared by applying ‘t’ test. This study revealed significant difference in Mental Health Mean Scores betweUrban and Rural area Secondary School Students of South Gujarat. This shows that the brought up of the student affects their mental health. The economic development may be one of the factor for the differences in mental health of urban and rural students.

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A Comparative Study of South Gujarat Urban and RuralSchools Students’ Mental Health

Dr. Milan P. Patel1, Dr. Ankur D. Chaudhari 2 Physical Instructor

College of Veterinary Science and A.H., 2N.M. College of Agriculture,avsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat, India

Mental health of the learner is very important for efficient learning and proper development of personality. For adolescents, school is the most important setting outside the family. Students perceptions of the school environment are

ed with their wellbeing. Well-developed adolescents who were empowered with appropriate life skills have better chances of becoming healthy, responsible, and productive adults. Students are also having many mental health problems, example, exam phobia, and adjustment

The purpose of the study was to compare the Mental Health status among South Gujarat Urban and Rural Secondary School Students. Subjects selected for the present study were secondary school students of south Gujarat urban and rural area. A total of 2160 boys student were randomly selected below the age of 15 years. From the city schools 1077 boys and from rural schools 1083 boys were randomly selected. The Mental Health Scale prepared by Dr. D.J. Bhatt and

s. Geeta R. Geeda was used as a tool for the present

The scores arrived from 1077 Urban School students and 1083 Rural School students were compared by

‘t’ test. This study revealed significant difference in Mental Health Mean Scores between Urban and Rural area Secondary School Students of South Gujarat. This shows that the brought up of the student affects their mental health. The economic development may be one of the factor for the differences in mental health of urban and rural

Schools have to play a vital role in improving mental health of students. A mentally healthy student can think positively and cherishes it in any situation. Also mentally healthy student can contribute in developing the society and nation. Keywords: Mental Health, Urban, Rural, Secondary, School, Students. INTRODUCTION: Mental health is being fit psychological, or an absence of mental illness. It is the psychological state of person who is at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health includes "subjective well-being, perceived selfautonomy, competence, interdependence, and self actualizationand emotional potential, among others." The WHO further states that the well-being of an individual is encompassed in the realization of their abilities, coping with normal stresses of life, productive work and contribution to their community. Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how "mental health" isdefined. Mental health is a normal state of wella positive way and a quality of life. It is a condition which is characterized of the average person who meets the demands of life on the basis of his own capacities and limitations. It is rooted in his ability to balance feelings, desires, ambitions, ideas and competence. Today, an individual is facing lots of problems in the human societies. So, it is a challenge for humans to be mentally healthy. Mental health

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nd Rural Schools Students’ Mental Health

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Schools have to play a vital role in improving mental health of students. A mentally healthy student can think positively and cherishes it in any situation. Also mentally healthy student can contribute in developing

, Urban, Rural, Secondary,

psychological, or an absence of mental illness. It is the psychological state of a

who is at a satisfactory level of emotional and adjustment. According to the World Health

Organization (WHO), mental health includes perceived self-efficacy,

autonomy, competence, inter-generational dependence, and self actualization of one's intellectual

, among others." The WHO being of an individual is

encompassed in the realization of their abilities, normal stresses of life, productive work

and contribution to their community. Cultural sessments, and competing

professional theories all affect how "mental health" is defined. Mental health is a normal state of well-being,

a quality of life. It is a condition which is characterized of the average person who

nds of life on the basis of his own capacities and limitations. It is rooted in his ability to

feelings, desires, ambitions, ideas and

an individual is facing lots of problems in the human societies. So, it is a challenge for humans to be

Mental health has become very

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importance issue of human life. Mental health of the learner is very important for efficient learning and proper development of personality. For adolescschool is the most important setting outside the family. Students perceptions of the school environment are significantly associated with their wellbeing. Well-developed adolescents who were empowered with appropriate life skills have better chances of becoming healthy, responsible, and productive adults. Students are also having many mental health problems, example, exam phobia, and adjustment problem with teacher, school The world is becoming more and more competitive and quality of performance is the key factor for personal progress. Excellence particularly, in academics and generally in all other areas important aspect. All parents desire that their child should be the top performer. This desire of a high level of achievement puts a lot of pressure on students, teachers, institutions and the educational system itself in general. In fact it appears as if the whole system of education revolves around academic achievement of the students, though various other outcomes are also expected from the system. WHAT RESEARCH SAYS? Desai Parulben Harish (2017) studied the mental health of adolescent students of higher secondary school. The study was based on the investiconducted to study the effect of gender, area of residency and type of family on mental health of adolescent students of higher secondary school of Valsad district in Gujarat state. The sample consisted of 240 higher secondary school students. The swas selected in terms of sex (male and female), area of residency (rural and urban) and type of family (joint family and nuclear family) in equal proportions, drawn randomly. Mental Health was measured by A K Singh and Alpana Sengupta Test of Mental Battery. In this research, ‘t’ test method was used for testing of null hypothesis. In the findings of this research, there was a significant difference in mental health between male and female students. Also, there was significant difference between in mental health of rural and urban students. In the last results, there are significant differences in mental health between joint family and nuclear family students. In the conclusions of these researches, male students have good mental health as compared to the female students, rural students have good mental health as compared to the urban students and the joint family students have good



Mental health of the learner is very important for efficient learning and proper development of personality. For adolescents, school is the most important setting outside the family. Students perceptions of the school environment are significantly associated with their

developed adolescents who were empowered with appropriate life skills have better

of becoming healthy, responsible, and Students are also having many

mental health problems, example, exam phobia, and school- family.

The world is becoming more and more competitive and quality of performance is the key factor for

Excellence particularly, in academics and generally in all other areas is being the

arents desire that their child . This desire of a high

level of achievement puts a lot of pressure on students, teachers, institutions and the educational system itself in general. In fact it appears as if the whole system of education revolves around academic chievement of the students, though various other

outcomes are also expected from the system.

Desai Parulben Harish (2017) studied the mental health of adolescent students of higher secondary school. The study was based on the investigation conducted to study the effect of gender, area of residency and type of family on mental health of adolescent students of higher secondary school of Valsad district in Gujarat state. The sample consisted of 240 higher secondary school students. The sample was selected in terms of sex (male and female), area of residency (rural and urban) and type of family (joint family and nuclear family) in equal proportions, drawn randomly. Mental Health was measured by A K Singh and Alpana Sengupta Test of Mental Health Battery. In this research, ‘t’ test method was used for testing of null hypothesis. In the findings of this research, there was a significant difference in mental health between male and female students. Also, there

n in mental health of rural and urban students. In the last results, there are significant differences in mental health between joint family and nuclear family students. In the conclusions of these researches, male students have good mental

red to the female students, rural students have good mental health as compared to the urban students and the joint family students have good

mental health as compared to the urban nuclear family students. Kharod Nikhil & Kumar Dinesh mental health status of school going adolescents as part of introducing life skills education. Cross sectional study was carried out among adolescent students (10-19 years) in rural schools of Anand district of Gujarat, using a preself reported ‘Strengths & Difficulties’ Questionnaire (SDQ) in Gujarati language. 605 (62.6%) boys and 361 (37.4%) girls participated in the study. The mean age was 14.2 years (Standard deviation: 1.46). Majority of students 820 (84.9%) attended day schools (9am-5pm). 171 (17%) students attended tuitions also. Only about 37% had normal self reported SDQ scores. 30% had borderline and 33% had abnormal scores. Highest level of abnormal score was seen in peer problem score (45.9%) and least in pro-social behavior score (1.1%). The abnormal SDQ score were statistically more among girls, Muslim students, students in primary school, those with problematic families and those attending morning schools. The SDQ can be easily administrated in rural Indian setting by trained non professional personnel including teachers. The high prevalence of abnormal SDQ scores calls for integrating mental health issues and Life skill education in the existing school health programs. PURPOSE OF THE STUDYThe purpose of the study was to Health status among South Gujarat Urban Secondary School Students. HYPOTHESIS It was hypothesized that there will be no significant difference in Mental Health among Urban and Rural Secondary School Students METHODOLOGY SAMPLE: For the purpose of the study subjects selected for the present study were students of south Gujarat urban and rural areaof 2160 boys student were randomly selected below the age of 15 years. From the city schools 1077 boys and from rural schools 1083 boys were randomly selected. TOOL: The Mental Health SD.J. Bhatt and Ms. Geeta R. Gfor the present study. Th

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mental health as compared to the urban nuclear family

Kumar Dinesh (2015) studied the ental health status of school going adolescents as

part of introducing life skills education. Cross sectional study was carried out among adolescent

19 years) in rural schools of Anand district of Gujarat, using a pre-tested and validated

reported ‘Strengths & Difficulties’ Questionnaire (SDQ) in Gujarati language. 605 (62.6%) boys and 361 (37.4%) girls participated in the study. The mean age was 14.2 years (Standard deviation: 1.46). Majority of students 820 (84.9%) attended day

5pm). 171 (17%) students attended tuitions also. Only about 37% had normal self reported SDQ scores. 30% had borderline and 33% had abnormal scores. Highest level of abnormal score was seen in peer problem score (45.9%) and least in

score (1.1%). The abnormal SDQ score were statistically more among girls, Muslim students, students in primary school, those with problematic families and those attending morning schools. The SDQ can be easily administrated in rural

ned non professional personnel including teachers. The high prevalence of abnormal SDQ scores calls for integrating mental health issues and Life skill education in the existing school health

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The purpose of the study was to compare the Mental

South Gujarat Urban and Rural

It was hypothesized that there will be no significant difference in Mental Health among South Gujarat

nd Rural Secondary School Students.

purpose of the study subjects selected for the present study were secondary school

south Gujarat urban and rural area. A total student were randomly selected below

the age of 15 years. From the city schools 1077 boys and from rural schools 1083 boys were randomly

Scale prepared by Dr. Geeda was used as a tool his scale contains 40



statements pertaining to five domains, health, these five dimensions include reality, integration of personality, evaluation, group oriented attitenvironmental mastery to be rated on 3- ANALYSIS The scores arrived from 1077 Urban School students and 1083 Rural School students were compared by applying ‘t’ test. The resultant value is shown table below: Table – 1 Significant Difference of Mental Health

Among Secondary School Students Gujarat Urban and Rural Area

Group N Mean Std. Dev.

Mean Difference

Urban 1077 25.25 5.26 2.0189

Rural 1083 23.23 4.96 * Significant at .05 level

It is evident from the table 1 that there was a significant difference between the mean scores onMental Health of male students of secondary school from South Gujarat urban and rural areaobtained ‘t’ value (9.181) is greater than the tabulated value of ‘t’ (1.645) which is required to be significant at .05 level. The graphical presentation is as below:

Graph 1: Graphical Representation of Mean Scores of Mental Health among Secondary Students of South Gujarat Urban and

CONCLUSION Mental health of the student is very important; the students should feel secure and comfortable in the school. Type of the school has significant influence on the mental health of the student.

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should feel homely atmosphere in the school. time of colleting the data from both urban and rural area the researcher had interacted with the teachers and students. It was noticed that the mrural student’s parents are illiterates, and they seemed to be first generation learners. The poor conditions of the family, health problems, problems in understanding the subjects, lack of support from the siblings and parents leads to poorstudents. Whereas, the scenario attotally different, the students are not happy with daily academic activities and rigid time table followed the school. The teachers are more interested in imposing the syllabus load and insisting the students to score top marks and grades. Unhealthy type of academic competition is being created among the students. On the basis of the findings of the present study the following conclusion was drawn: This study revealed significant Health Mean Scores between Secondary School Students of South Gujaratshows that the brought up of the student affects their mental health. The economic development may one of the factor for the differences in mental health of urban and rural students. Schools have to play a vital role health of students. A mentally healthy student can think positively and cherishes it in any situation.mentally healthy student can contributthe society and nation. REFERENCES 1. Bernard, H. (1951). Towards Better Personality

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