Correlates of Mental Health among Students

Abstract

In recent era maintaining mental health in our students has become one of the major concerns in our society. They are facing lots of stress and anxiety from many sides in our rapidly and dynamic changing world and they do not know how to face these stresses. Mental health is the health of the personality as a whole and the most important function of education and school is to secure the mental health of boys and girls. Physical fitness is not only sufficient, but is a means of promoting the mental and moral health of a child. Mental health improves quality of one's life and makes one free of depression, anxiety, excessive stress, worry, addictions and other psychological problems. School is an important location for mental health promotion, early intervention and identification. So school provides healthy and peaceful environment to all the children/student where they would be developed physically, socially, culturally, mentally as well as intellectually. In this paper mental health is discussed with various factors like self-esteem, emotional intelligence, anxiety and family environment etc.