(R 14) A STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADJUSTMENT IN SCIENCE AND ART STUDENTS

The investigator in this paper tried to explore mental health and adjustment in science and art College students. The study was conducted in Bhiwani District of Haryana. The sample of the study consists of 150 College students who are studying in B.Sc. and B.A.; there are 75 science students (both boys and girls) and 75 art students. Mental health checklist developed by Kumar (1992) was used to measure the mental health status of the students. Adjustment inventory for College students constructed by Sinha & Singh was used to measure the adjustment level of the students. T he‘t’ test was used to compare the mean score of science and art students. The result revealed that there were significant difference exits between science and art students at.05 level of significance. Art students have had better mental health status and better adjustment level in comparison with science students.