A STUDY ON MENTAL HEALTH OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS

The present study was intended to find out the mental health of prospective teachers. The objective of the study was to find the significance difference in the mean scores of mental health of prospective teachers with respect to locality of institution, marital status, parental education, and family income. The data were collected from 200 prospective teachers in various colleges of education in Kanniyakumari district using simple random sampling. The method adopted for the study is the Normative survey method. For the analysis of data, the statistical techniques used were t-test and ANOVA. The findings of the study revealed that there is a significant difference in the mean scores of mental health of prospective teachers with respect to the locality of the institution.