Mental Health in Relation to Parental Encouragement among Adolescents

This study examined mental health in relation to parental encouragement among adolescents. The study was conducted on 100 adolescents of Patiala city in Punjab. 50 female and 50 male were taken randomly for this study. Tools used for this study were Mental Health Battery (MHB) by Arun Kumar Singh and Alpana Sen Gupta (2005) and Parental Encouragement Scale (PES) by Kusum Aggarwal (1999). Descriptive method of research was used to conduct the study. T-test and Pearson's product moment correlation was used for attaining the objectives of this study. After analysis of the result, it was found that the study revealed a significant positive relationship between mental health and parental encouragement of adolescents and there is no significant mean difference in mental health and parental encouragement in relation to gender, but male adolescents are mentally healthier than female adolescents and male adolescents receive more parental encouragement than female adolescents.