An Analytical Study of Resilience and Mental Health of College Students

The present study attempting to discover the impact of sex and resilience on mental health of college students. The study encompasses of 120 college students in which 60 were girls and 60 were boys. Rural and urban ratio kept 1:1. The age ranges between 18 to 21 years. The purposive sampling technique was used to selecting the Ss for the study. Two psychometric scales were used to obtain data from Ss; viz. Resilience scale developed by Gardland and Mental Health scale constructed by Anand Kumar and Thakur. Further, Two Way ANOVA was used to analyze the obtained data. Findings revealed that, Boys and girls has the more or less equal level of mental health. Furthermore, it was also found that students having higher level of resilience can cherish high level of mental health than those of having low resilience level and vice versa. Finally, interaction effect sex and resilience were found statistically not significant.