• NOSSAM KAVITHA
• DR V MALLI KARJUNA REDDY

Mental health is an important aspect of one’s total health status. It is a quality of emotional well-being which provides the individual with effective living concerned with the everyday living conditions or situations. The main objective of the present study is to study the influence of caste and type of family on the Mental health of IX class students. Mental health scale was developed by Thorpe and Clark (1959) was adopted from Pavani, M (2017). A sample of 320 IX class students representing all categories of Secondary schools in Chittoor District by following the standardized procedures. ‘t’ – test was employed for analysis of the data. There is significant influence of caste and type of family at 0.01 level of significance on the Mental health of IX class students. BC caste group students and Joint family group secondary school students have high mental health than the other caste groups and nuclear family secondary school students. Government has to provide good amenities for various caste and joint family group secondary school students.

Mental health, Caste, Type of family and IX class students.

"A STUDY ON MENTAL HEALTH OF IX CLASS STUDENTS WITH CASTE AND TYPE OF FAMILY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no.k443-k447, March-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403A57.pdf

"A STUDY ON MENTAL HEALTH OF IX CLASS STUDENTS WITH CASTE AND TYPE OF FAMILY", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no. ppk443-k447, March-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403A57.pdf