A STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS IN RELATION TO DEPRESSION

The study examined the mental health among college students in relation to depression. The sample of 62 college students was selected by random sampling technique from government degree colleges of Patti and Tarn Taran affiliated to Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar only. The Descriptive statistics i.e. mean, S.D., ANOVA and Karl Pearson's product moment correlation were used to analyse the data. The results demonstrated that mental health was negatively and significantly correlated with depression among total, female, rural, urban and humanities and BC and general group of college students, but negatively and not significantly correlated in male group, science & commerce stream college students and also in SC category college students with depression. On the basis of above findings, it is suggested that the colleges should have counsellors and guidance workers in order to help in solving personal and educational problems of college students.