Effect of gender, locale and family environment on mental health of undergraduate students

Pages: 492-495
Ku. Anupama Bhonsle and K.Nagamani (Kalyan Post Graduate College, Bhilai Nagar, Chhattisgarh)

Family is the primary institution where a person get a chance to learn how to interact and how to behave with members of family and when he become a part of society he deal with members of society according to his upbringing. The family environment primarily consists of the prevalent customs, codes and traditions of the community. It is at the same time made highly personal by the human interaction involved. The family furnishes the basic environment for building personality of the individual with its warm intimate contact contributing to their feeling of security and belongingness. As mental health is an important part of human life. It should be sound in every part of life then only a person can be useful for family, society and country. To study the main and interactional effect of gender, locale and family environment on mental health of undergraduate students. There will be no significant main and interactional effect of gender, locale and family environment on mental health of undergraduate students. A sample The students of graduation final year from different colleges of district Durg were selected . A sample of 836 students (353 urban and 483 rural) was randomly selected. Mental health battery developed by Singh and Gupta (2000) and family environment was measured by Family Environment Scale (FES) by Bhatia and Chadha (1993) were used for research. The result revealed that urban boys of unfavorable family environment have higher mental health than other boys whereas rural girls of favorable family environment found higher mental health than other girls.