Mental Health and Self-Esteem among Tribal School Students of West Singhbhum, Jharkhand

Abstract

The Purpose of this research was to investigate correlation between mental health and self-esteemamong tribal school students. The sample of this study included on 120 tribal school students i.e., 60 students from rural area and 60 students from urban area. Mental health measured using the mental health inventory developed by Jagdish and Srivastava and self-esteem measured using the self-esteem scale developed by Rosenberg. Data analyzed to mean, SD,‘t’ value and correlation. The results indicated that there is no significant correlation between mental health and self-esteemamong tribal school students. Result also revealed that the self-esteem of tribal male students is better than that of tribal female students. There is insignificant difference between self-esteemand mental health on tribal students in rural and urban areas.