IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS, MENTAL HEALTH, AND EMOTIONAL MATURITY OF COLLEGE-GOING STUDENTS

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Pragya Vadlamani, Dr. Shaista Ansari, Dr. Anshu Shrivastava

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The relationship between socioeconomic status, mental health, and emotional maturity among college-going students of rural and urban, art and science has been dealt with in this paper. The sample included 100 students selected by the random sampling technique, out of which 50 were boys and 50 were girls students. The socio-economic status scale, mental health scale, and emotional maturity scale were used for data collection. Pearson’s correlation coefficient technique was adopted for data analysis. There is not significant socioeconomic status, mental health, and emotional maturity among the boys and girls’ students, art and science students including those of rural background, students with low and high socio-economic status, and students more than 20 years of age. It is found that there is no significant relationship between socio-economic status, mental health, and emotional maturity among the urban students, studying in government colleges, with high socio-economic status and students less than 20 years of age.

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