Sunita Gopalrao Athawale

Abstract:
In the present research a study is about the correlation between mental health and academic achievement among students of ninth class in Aurangabad city. Students have many problems in this stage of life. So there is a need to take care of mental health like physical health very much. If students have no mental health, they face many problems. Like mental conflict, Adjustment problem, not concentration on study and this effects on the academic achievement of students. The sample of 300 students (150 girls and 150 boys) were taken from 15 schools of Aurangabad city. Tools used for the study were the Mental Health Battery (A.K. Singh and A.S. Gupta) and academic achievement was assessed by their result. Correlation, mean and percentile were used for data analysis. Mental health of students was 83.5 (average) and academic achievement of students was 66.7 (medium) respectively. Correlation between mental health and academic achievement is 0.11 that shows low positive correlation.