Abstract

Mental Health of Adolescents in Relation to Their Academic Anxiety

Nitya Arora

Volume: 12 Issue: 1 2022

Abstract:

This research used a randomly chosen sample of 160 pupils from the Pathankot area of Punjab state. The sample was administered using “Singh and Gupta's Academic Anxiety Scale for Children and Singh and Sengupta's Mental Health Battery, which was designed and standardised. The data was analysed and interpreted using the mean, standard deviation, and coefficient of correlation. The study found that a) there is no significant correlation between Academic Anxiety and Adolescent Mental Health; b) there is no significant correlation between Academic Anxiety and Female Adolescent Mental Health; and c) there is no significant correlation between Academic Anxiety and Male Adolescent Mental Health”.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i01.034

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