SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR HUMANITY SCIENCE & ENGLISH LANGUAGE

4211-4216

Authors: N. Kishore

An attempt was made in the present investigation to study the influence of stress and depression on mental health in a sample of 120 aged men and women in the age group of 60-70 years, living in rural areas of Chittoor District of A.P. Data were collected by using stress inventory (Bratly and Jones, 1989), depression scale (Shamim Karim and Rama Tiwari., 1986) and mental health inventory (Jagadish and Srivastava., 1983). A 2X2 factorial design was employed. ANOVA was used to analyse the data. The findings of the study revealed that stress and depression have significant influence on mental health.

4222-4230

Authors: Mrs Neelima Narayan Tikhe

IN MARATHI

4240-4248

Authors: Pooja Sharma & Vishal Sood

The present task was undertaken to construct and standardize test for measuring cognitive abilities of elementary school students. For this, data were collected from elementary school students by adopting multistage sampling along with incidental sampling technique. An item pool was created initially by consulting various sources and theoretical and empirical literature availablein concerned area. This item pool was put to evaluation and criticism by technical as well as language experts. The preliminary draft of cognitive abilities test was further subjected to item analysis to select only those items which were having average difficulty and possessed adequate validity. The reliability of test was established with the help of test-retest and split-half methods which were found to be appreciably high. The validity of cognitive abilities test was ascertained and norms were established for interpretation of obtained scores on the test. In the last, conclusions have been presented and applicability of cognitive abilities test have been discussed.

4256-4263

Authors: Londhe G. D., Bhambare A. R. & Shri. Zavare A.J

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4268-4275

Authors: P. Jayachandran

The aim of the research study is to analyze the mental health and Peer relationof Higher secondary school students. Survey method is employed for collecting the data from 300 samples from six different higher secondary schools by adopting stratified random sampling technique. The major objectives of the study include, to analyze the level of mental health among Higher secondary school students, to assess the level of Peer relationamong Higher secondary school students, to find out the mental health among Higher secondary school students based on, gender, type of school, to find out the Peer relationamong Higher secondary school students based on, type of management, type of school, Location of the school. The study reveals the following findings, the level of mental health among Higher secondary school studentsis high, the level of Peer relationamong Higher secondary school students is moderate in nature, and thereis significant difference of mental health among Higher secondary school students based on gender, type of school. There is significant difference of Peer relationamong Higher secondary school students based on type of management, type of school, Location of school.