Mental health and academic achievement: A review of studies

Pages: 2074-2076
Manoj Kumar and Kiran Sahu (Department of Psychology, G. D. H. G. (PG) College, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh)

Mental health is known as a positive source contributing to overall development individually, socially, and economically. Mental health is the ability to make adjustment to the external world also it helps in dealing with many problems like career choice, academic pressure, relationship problem etc. Academic achievement is related to performance outcomes that indicate the performance graph of student’s specifically in school, college, and university. Better mental health in students is reflected by healthy family organisation, good community and better school environment. Through the various review of studies we are trying to identify the connection between mental health and detailed measures of academic achievement during student’s life. Mittal (2008) studied academic achievement of secondary level students in relation to their mental health and found that there was positive significant difference in academic achievement and mental health. According to the finding of many studies mental health & academic achievement have positive correlation which states that effect of one will lead to impact on other.