Effect of Deprivation, Anxiety and Stress on Mental Health of Adolescents

Deprivation, Anxiety, Stress, Students.Mental health is the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment. Most mental disorders like deprivation, anxiety and stress begin between adolescents. Mentally healthy means that a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. An adolescent is greatly influenced by social, emotional, educational, environmental and cultural factors. This study aims to find out the effect of deprivation, anxiety and stress on mental health of adolescents. Three hundred sixty adolescents served as subjects and they were considered as low deprived and high deprived on the basis of their scores on prolonged deprivation scale (Mishra & Tripathi). There level of stress and anxiety were know by Bisht Battery of stress scale (Bisht) and anxiety scale (cattle). Findings were analyzed by 3-way ANOVA and it was noticed that better level of mental health was favoured by low level of deprivation, anxiety and stress. Findings were interpreted in terms of deprivation, anxiety and stress as effectors of mental health. At last intervention strategies were provided to raise the mental faculty underprivileged ones.