Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing

Sakshi Kaushal ¹, Vandana Kanwar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development & Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Youth is the stage of human life when an individual is energetic, passionate, motivated and enthusiastic. World Health Organization (2001) reported that approximately 25% of the global population is troubled by mental or behavioral issue at some time during their lives. Youth is one of the vulnerable groups resorting to suicides with 33% share of total suicides (Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Government of India). Seventy per cent population of India depends directly or indirectly upon agriculture (Food & Agriculture Organization, 2017- 18) and suicides in agrarian families account for 11.2% of total suicides in the country (National Crime Records Bureau of India). Keeping the present scenario in view, an exploratory study was carried out to study the psychological well-being (PWB) of youth in agrarian families. The respondents were undergraduate students studying in educational institutes of district Ludhiana, Punjab. Total sample comprised of 80 youth (Males=40, Females=40). Standardized scales were used for assessment of PWB (Sisodia & Choudhary, 1971). The results indicated that both males and females had moderate PWB and further exploration highlighted that male youth had better PWB in comparison to females on all dimensions of PWB, i.e., satisfaction, efficiency, sociability, mental health and interpersonal relations. Gender differences in means were found to be significant on efficiency, sociability, mental health, interpersonal relations as well as overall PWB except satisfaction.

Keywords

Educational Institutions, Psychological Well-being,youth, Indian College Students.

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Parul Sood ¹, Vandana Kanwar ¹, Gurupdesh Kaur ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab ., IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted to assess the peer support and perceived problems as correlate of mental health among rural adolescents. Current research study included total sample of 200 and among them 100 were girls and 100 were boys. Due to Covid Pandemic the sample was randomly selected from rural government schools of Distt. Hoshiarpur. General Information sheet was used to collect information regarding demographic profile of the respondents. Standardized tools like Mental health battery (Singh & Gupta, 2000) and Beck Youth Inventory were used to assess the level of both mental health and perceived problems respectively of the selected adolescents. Non standardized checklist was used to assess the perceived need of peer support of adolescents. Data revealed that majority of the rural adolescents had very poor level of mental health. Majority of Girls' level of mental health was very poor in comparison to the boys. Overall results indicated that adolescents perceived psycho social problems related to anxiety, anger, self-concept overall adjustment and disruptive behavior but it was for some time only. Among adolescents, large proportion of girls in comparison to the boys perceived problems. Rural adolescents less need of peer support.

Keywords

adolescents, mental health, peer support need, perceived problems

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