Mental Health Of Rural Adolescent School Students In South 24 Pargana District

The present study aims to find out the level of mental health of rural adolescent school students in South 24 Pargana District of West Bengal. The data were collected from 140 samples (70 Boys & 70 Girls). The researcher used the standardized Mental Health Inventory (MHI) with six dimensions developed by Jagdish & Srivastava (1986), through purposive sampling technique. Mean, S.D, and t-test statistical techniques were employed to analysis and interpret the results. The major findings of the study is that there is no significant difference between mean scores of boys and girls adolescents students.