Research Article

Study of mental health of visually impaired and hearing impaired rural and urban adolescent students
 

*N A Nadeem, Javeed Ahmad Pujuand and Nadia Zahoor

Department of Education, University of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir India.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: showkat80ahmad@gmail.com

 
Received 27 December, 2012; Accepted 16 January, 2013

Abstract

The present study was carried out to compare visually impaired and hearing impaired students on various dimension of mental health. A sample of 200 students (100 visually impaired and 100 hearing impaired) was selected randomly form various colleges in Kashmir. For the present study, Mental Health Battery by Alpana Sen Gupta was used to collect the data. The statistical analysis was interpreted by using some statistical treatments. There was significant mean difference between the two groups of students on their mental health.

Key words: Visually impaired, hearing impaired, mental health, higher education students.