MENTAL HEALTH OF 10TH CLASS STUDENTS IN RELATION TO EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND PERSONALITY

Abstract

Mental health is an important and essential aspect which play significant role in development whole life. It is powerful tonic for development of all cognitive, affective and psychomotor development. A man with healthy mind is attaining satisfaction in life. A mentally healthy person can be creative to learn new things and take risks for higher achievement. But it is true that today secondary and college students are facing mental health problems due to several reasons. Mental health problems are affecting academic performance of learner and good causes of poor academic achievement and a major cause of suicide. Therefore, development of mental health at secondary, higher secondary and college level is very essential challenges in front of teachers, parents, teacher educators and Governments. Particularly adolescence period is very important and critical stage of life and a stage of physical psychological transition. At this stage physical, emotional, social, religious, attitudinal etc. develop vastly. This is backbone of development of physical, social and psychological domain of individual, while, mental health is essential element for these development. Hence study of mental health in relation to striking psychological variables (like emotional intelligence, personality, spiritual intelligence etc.) is essential task of researchers. Mental health, emotional intelligence and personality are interrelated concepts and affected by each other. For the development of the balanced personality of individuals, they must be mentally healthy and emotionally balance. Therefore, the present study is designed to know relationship of mental health to emotional intelligence and personality of high school students. newline