EFFECT OF ANXIETY AND MENTAL HEALTH ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL

WELLBEING OF THE ADOLESCENTS

Dr. Enu Sambyal, Assistant professor, Chandigarh college of Education, Mohali
9872223056, enusambyal88@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

One of the most essential sustainable development goals is to maintain and increase the quality
of education. A health mind and health can contribute to achieve this goal. Adolescence is a
special and developmental stage of life.in this competitive era, adolescents became more
susceptible to mental health issues due to physical, emotional, and social changes, such as being
exposed to stress, expectations, poverty, abuse, or violence. Due to the increase in the incidents
related to mental health issues and anxiety among adolescents, research want to investigate the
effect of anxiety and mental health issues on the psychological wellbeing of the adolescents. For
the study 400 adolescents were taken as sample from the 10 senior secondary schools of
Chandigarh. For descriptive survey Sinha's Comprehensive Anxiety Test by A.K. Sinha and
L.N.K. Sinha (2007), mental health inventory developed by Jagdish & Srivastav and Scale of
Psychological Well-Being created by D.S. Sisodia and Pooja Choudhary (2012) tools were used.
Descriptive statistics, t test and correlation were employed to analyze the data. The result showed that mental
health and anxiety is negatively related to psychological wellbeing. it was found that increase in anxiety leads
to poor mental health of the adolescents, and had adverse effect on their psychological wellbeing.