Identifying Resilient/Risk Psycho-social Factors Influencing Mental Health of Youth
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2012
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Objective - Five psychosocial factors represented as five variables namely focus of control, level
of anxiety, optimistic temperament, ambitious nature, and happiness had been identified in order
to investigate their relationship within itself and with the mental health status of youth.
Methods - A sample of 150 girls doing their postgraduation was drawn through randomized
sampling. A questiormaire is used to measure the identified leveEtype of psychosocial factors.
Standardized Mental Health Check list by Pramod (1992) was used to assess their mental health
status. Relationship between the psychosocial factors and the mental health status was
ascertained through Pearson product moment correlation coefficient statistics.
Conclusion - The risk factors debilitating the mental health of youth are identified as strong
internal focus of control and extreme happiness. The protective factors, on the other hand were
low level of anxiety, optimistic temperament and highly ambitious nature.
Key Words - Mental Health, Psycho-social factors, Risk/resilient