Academic resilience and mental health among adolescents of rural and urban area

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Pinki and Krishna Duhan (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, I.C. College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana )

Academic resilience is an individual’s tendency to endure interest, passion, effort and tenacity toward achieving long-term future goals despite challenges and disappointments. Mental health includes our sensitive, psychological and social well-being. It marks how we think, feel and perform, therefore the study was conducted to assess the academic resilience and mental health of adolescents. The study was undertaken in Hisar district of Haryana state in rural and urban area. A list of adolescents was prepared from rural and urban area i.e. 100 from rural area and 100 from urban area thus making a total sample of 200 adolescents. The sample represents equal number of boys and girls ranging in 16-18 years of age group. Academic resilience scale by Mallick and Kaur (2015) was used to assess academic resilience and mental health inventory by Jagdish and Shrivastva (1983) to assess mental health of respondents. The finding elucidates that irrespective of area of residence male respondents had higher academic resilience than their counterparts. The results further highlighted that urban respondents had better mental health than rural respondents. With regards to gender results depicts that male respondents had better mental health than female respondents. The reason may be that due to high academic resilience in male respondents they have the better mental health. Further results revealed significant differences for both academic resilience and mental health .