EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH AS EVOCATORS OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

The present study has been designed to investigate the Emotional Competence and Mental Health as predictors of Academic Achievement among the Secondary School students of Rohtak. For this purpose, a sample of 252 students of Rohtak district was taken on the basis of gender, locality and type of management of school. Scale of Emotional Competence Scale (SEC) by Sharma and Bhardwaj (1998) and Mental Health Battery (MHB-ss) by Singh & Gupta (revised in 2008) and Achievement in Mathematics were administered to ascertain the emotional competence and mental health as predictors of academic achievement in Mathematics of Secondary school student. The findings of the study revealed that Emotional Competence and Mental Health have high correlation with Academic Achievement. The findings also revealed that among the variables studied, the best evocator of Academic Achievement is Mental Health.