Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

Priyamvada Shrivastava ¹, Gayatri Jay Mishra ², Mahendra Kumar ¹

Affiliations
1 Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Pt. R.S.U. Raipur, C.G., IN
2 Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Pt. R.S.U. Raipur, C.G., IN

Abstract

The main objective of the study was to explore the factor of happiness among the adolescent’s students the other objective was to formulate the theoretical structure of the happiness for the adolescent’s population of Chhattisgarh India. For these purpose 250 adolescents studying in different schools of Chhattisgarh constituted the sample for the study. The students were asked to give an open-ended answer to a question “what makes them happy” analysis was performed for their responses 28 common responses after analyzing the responses were identified. A hypothetical exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was computed to find out the factors of happiness among adolescents. The results of the EFA revealed 5 factors of happiness for adolescents. The results of CFA reveal a low correlation between the 5 factors.

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Reeta Venugopal ¹, Priyamvada Srivastava ², Aniksha Varoda ³, Mahendra Kumar ³

Affiliations
1 Professor Dept. of Physical Education, Pt. R.S.U. Raipur, C.G., IN
2 Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Pt. R.S.U. Raipur, C.G., IN
3 Research Scholar, Pt. R.S.U. Raipur, C.G., IN

Abstract

Adolescent girls in India may face poor nutritional status due to low access to healthy food and high mental health symptoms attributed to high stress. Total 72% of infants and 52% of married women have anaemia. Researches indicated that malnutrition during pregnancy causes the child to have increased risk of physical retardation and reduce cognitive abilities. The objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of body mass index and age on mental health of adolescent girls. 1000 adolescent girls were selected through stratified random sampling technique from different government school of Raipur, India. Mental health was measured by Mental Health Battery. Anthropometric measurement and age was collected by the standard procedure. Multivariate analysis of variance and post Hoch test were employed to analyze the data. Results revealed that adolescent girls significantly differ in emotional stability, overall adjustment, autonomy, security-insecurity, intelligence and over all mental health with increasing age. Post Hoch test showed that adolescent girls with low body mass index differ significantly on overall adjustment and self concept dimension of mental health in comparison to adolescent girls with normal BMI. It is concluded from the study that adolescent girls of early years (12-14) must be given environment to develop Emotional Stability, Autonomy, Security-Insecurity and Intelligence. Proper nutrition is needed to improve self concept and over all adjustment. Findings of the study draws attention to create awareness related to mental health and nutrition.

Keywords

Mental health, BMI, Adolescent Girls.

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