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Keeping in view the Philosophy of Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati ji, BCM College moves ahead with the mission to create through education a valuable asset to the nation in the form of talented and dedicated teachers who can help in the all round and homogeneous development of their students through 3 H’S (Head, Heart and Hand); 3 R’S (Reading, Rhetoric and Writing); and 5 C’S (Contact, Communicate, Compete, Culture and Character) We have the mission to develop the intellectual and creative faculties of our pupil teachers to enable them not only to with stand the changes in the field of education but also to lead by innovative initiatives. for the achievement of our mission research culture of the institute plays a vital role to achieve this mission ,So bcm college has taken initiative and launched its e-journal under the guidance of

Sh.Staya Nand Munjal ji(President)

Sh.S.K.Mehta (Secretary )

Sh.R.B Khanna,(Executive member)

Dr.Khushvinder kumar (Principal)

We hope and strongly believe, this will nurture research culture among creative and critical minds of teaching community, budding researchers and the ignited minds of our students.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENT IN RELATION TO MENTAL HEALTH OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMENT IN RELATION TO MENTAL HEALTH OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
                        Navpreet Kaur (M.Ed Student) BCM College of Education, Ludhiana
                                             knavpreet884@yahoo.com
                   Mrs. Manjit Kaur (Lecturer) BCM College of Education, Ludhiana
Abstract
The present study was undertaken to see the relationship of Mental Health of secondary school students and Parental Encouragement. For this investigation, Descriptive study was conducted. To conduct study tools used are- Mental Health Battery (MHB) (2005) by Dr. Arun Kumar Singh and Dr. Alpana Sen Gupta and Parental Encouragement Scale by R.P. Sharma. For this study following statistical techniques were used Mean, Median, Mode, Standard deviation, correlation. The present study was conducted on 200 students of secondary schools. The sample will comprise of 100 boys and 100 girls students of urban and rural background. The findings of our study are- The study reveals a significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school students. The study reveals no significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of girl’s students. The study reveals a significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of boy’s students.
           Keywords – Mental Health, Parental Encouragement
  INTRODUCTION
                The place of education has become very important in the fast changing world. It is education, which develops the individual. Mental development is one of the most important aims of education. Mental Health controls the overall functioning of the personality. It is influenced by various factors like heredity, home environment, society, desires, aspiration and parental encouragement. Parents exercise a great influence on both the personal and school life of children. Parental encouragement is one of the aspects of parent’s treatment patterns. In encouragement, parents help the child, guide him and coax him. So that, he may not feel dishearten at a particular point of difficulty. So, children are greatly influenced by parents.  If the parents are encouraging and supportive children would be motivated towards high achievement and success.
MENTAL HEALTH
Mental Health is a state, of mind characterized by emotional well being, relative freedom from anxiety, disabling symptom, capacity to establish constructive relations, cope with the ordinary demands and stresses of life.
Mental Health consists of two words ‘Mental’ and ‘Health’. ‘Mental’ means purely cerebral functioning of a person, it also stands for one’s emotional affective states, the relationships, which one establishes with other and quite generally quality that might be called one’s equilibrium with others. ‘Health’ generally means sound conditions or well being or freedom from diseases. Similarly, health refers to more than physical health, connotes the individual intra-psychic balance, the fit of one’s psychic structure with the external environment and one’s social functioning. Kothari, S. (2009) “Spiritual Orientation as Predictor of Mental Health in executives” and the aim of the paper was to find out the effect of spiritual orientation on mental health in executives. Spiritual Orientation Inventory developed by Anand Kumar and Thakur (1985) were administrated on a sample of 100 executives selected from Indore. The data were analyzed using C.R test. The results revealed that the high spiritual orientation have significant effect on mental health in executives.
PARENTAL ENCOURAGEMANT
Parental Encouragement is great significance in developing psychological as well as academic behavior of a student to survive in this complex world is accepted as a natural potentially of student. Parental encouragement promotes social growth of a child. Children whose parents are involved in their education have many advantages. They have better grades, test scores, long term academic achievement, attitudes and behavior than those with disinterested mothers and fathers.
Parental Encouragement is important in shaping attitude, values, self confidence and behavior patterns of child. As the parents are the one’s who always want their children to be successful human being and encourage them for the same. The encouragements provided by the parents to their children give them more confidence and energy. Kumar, Vijay (2009), “Study of parental encouragement in relation to achievement and gender” found that the student who get high level of parental encouragement have better performance. Male and female possess different level of parental encouragement.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
  • To study the relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school students.
  • To study the relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school Girls students.
  • To study the relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school Boys students.
  • To study the relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school rural students.
  • To study the relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school urban students.
HYPOTHESES OF THE STUDY
  • There exists no significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school students.
·         There exists no significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school girl’s students.
  • There exists no significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school boy’s students.
  • There exists no significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school rural students.
  • There exists no significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school urban students.
METHODOLOGY
 Tools used: Following tools were used for collecting data: (i) Mental Health Battery (MHB) (2005) by Dr. Arun Kumar Singh and Dr. Alpana Sen Gupta
(ii) Parental Encouragement Scale by R.P. Sharma.                  
Sample: On the basis of simple random sampling technique 200 boys and girls of rural and urban area Secondary School of Ludhiana district constituted the sample of present study. The sample will comprise of 100 boys and 100 girls students of urban and rural background.
Design: - The present study was Descriptive in nature. The data was analyzed by using statistical techniques like Mean, Median, Mode, S.D. and Correlation. Graphical representation of data was done wherever required.
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA:-
     The variables under study have been analyzed and interpreted separately for each of the main objectives and presented as under::-
VARIABLES
N
r
Mental Health of total students

200

0.229**

Parental Encouragement of total students
Mental Health of girls

100

0.156 ns
Parental Encouragement
Mental Health of boys

100

0.345***
Parental Encouragement
Mental Health of rural students

100



0.1 ns
Parental Encouragement
Mental Health of urban students

100

0.218**
Parental Encouragement
**: Significant at 0.05 level----------- ***: Significant at 0.01 level
Coefficient of correlation between the scores of parental encouragement and mental health  is 0.229**,and that of Mental health of Urban students and parental encouragement is 0.218**, which is significantly higher than the table value of coefficient of correlation 0.138 at 0.05 level of significance. Mental Health of boys & Parental encouragement is 0.345*** which is significantly higher than the table value of coefficient of correlation 0.25 at 0.01 level of significance.
 Coefficient of correlation between the scores of parental encouragement and mental health of  girls students is 0.156,  parental encouragement and mental health of rural students is 0.1, which is significantly less than the table value of coefficient of correlation is 0.195 at 0.05 level of significance.
CONCLUSIONS
On the basis of the study the following results have been drawn:
1.     The study reveals a significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of secondary school students.
2.     The study reveals no significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of girls students.
3.     The study reveals a significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of boys students.
4.     The study reveals no significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of rural students.
5.     The study reveals a significant relationship between parental encouragement and mental health of urban students.
REFERENCES
Kothari, Saroj (2009). Spiritual Orientation as Predictor of Mental Health in executives. Praachi Journal of Psycho – Cultural Dimensions,  25 (1 & 2): 153 – 155
Kumar, S. (2002). Sampling in Educational Research.A Case Publication, MSU, Baroda.
Meenakshi (2008-2009).Risk taking behavior and Mental health of Science and Humanities groups students in relation to Mathematics Achievements. (M.Ed. Dissertation). Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Nasreen Banu and B.Sandhya (2009). Impact of intervention on mental health levels of rural adolescent Girls.Praachi Journal of Psycho – Cultural Dimensions .  25 (1 & 2): 156 – 161 
Pargagga, M. (2005). Self confidence as related to Parental Encouragement (M.Ed. Dissertation).Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Kumar, Vijay (2009). Study of Parental Encouragement in relation to Achievement and Gender(M.Ed. dissertation)Panjab University, Chandigarh.

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