Influencing factors of Mental Health of Adolescents at School Level

Abstract

Mental health(MH) is a state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life. Their behaviour has impact on National Health Indicators like maternal and infant mortality.Adolescents are vulnerable to STIs, HIV/AIDS and Sexual-Abuse when there is negative impact of parents, teachers and their peer group especially upon their mental health. Several studies have emphasised serious concerns relating to adolescents that need urgent attention towards their mental health at school level itself. Caring, supportive environment will promote optimum development of Physical, Emotional and Mental health among Adolescents. Hence, the factors 'Parent Child Relation (PCR)' 'School Environment (SE)' and 'Peer Relation (PR)' are considered and their influence on mental health of adolescents is studied in this paper. Results disclose that there is high significant influence of good peer relation and healthy school environment on mental health of adolescents whereas 'Parent Child relation' has influenced moderately. It has been observed that the contribution of 'Parent Child Relation', 'Peer Relation' and 'School Environment' towards 'Mental Health' is more in girls than boys. Adolescents of Private Schools have strong parent child relation when compared to the adolescents of Government schools. But age and class of the adolescents have not shown any influence on their Mental Health due to PCR, SE and PR as there is no much gap among them.