Mental Health in Realtion to Academic Stress among Adolescents

This present study examined mental health in relation to academic stress among adolescents. Sample comprised 150 adolescents of Ludhiana city of Punjab, out of which 75 were female and 75 were male.Mental Health battery (2005) developed by A. K. Singh and Alpana Sengupta and Academic stress scale (1987) developed by Dr.Abha Rani Bisht were used to assess the data. Descriptive statistics namely mean, median, mode, S.D., t-test and Pearson's correlation was used for attaining the objectives of this study. Results revealed that there exists significant negative correlation between mental health and academic stress among adolescents and there is no significant mean difference in mental health of female and male adolescents. But there exists significant mean difference in academic stress among female and male adolescents, male adolescents are mentally healthier than female adolescents and female adolescents are more affected by academic stress than male adolescents.