Abstract :
The purpose of the study was to analyse the mental health on boys and girls at rural and urban area school students of kanyakumari district. To achieve the purpose of the study, the investigator, 125 boys and 125 girls each from rural and urban area totally 500 school students from Kanyakumari district, Tamilnadu were selected as subjects for this study and their age ranged between 14 and 17 years. In this study, mental health was assessed using Peter Becker Questionnaire. Collected data was subjected to Descriptive statistics and 2 x 2 factorial ANOVA was computed. The result reveals that, there was a insignificant differences found on rural and urban students in mental health. There was a significant differences found on boys and girls in mental health. There was insignificant difference on the interaction effect (locality & Gender). The urban boys are having better mental health followed by rural boys, urban girls and rural girls.
Author Name (s): K. Sam Micheal, Dr.J. Sathiah
Keywords: Rural, Urban, Boys, Girls, Mental Health.
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