MENTAL HEALTH OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR SELF-ESTEEM AND FAMILY ENVIRONMENT

The word mental health is comprised of two words ‘mental’ and ‘health’. Mental refers to proper functioning of brain because brain is center of all powers. Health generally means sound condition of body or freedom from mental diseases. This study aims to examine the mental health of the students in relation to their self-esteem and family environment using descriptive research method. Data collected by the three different tools mental health inventory, self-esteem scale and family environment scale. Data collected in May 2013 from 200 students of Ludhiana city (Punjab). The purpose of the present study is to assess the mental health of the secondary school students in relation to their self-esteem and family environment. And draw the interpretation on the basis of gender difference, also to compare the mental health, self-esteem and family environment of boys and girls of secondary schools.