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EFFECTS OF CROWDED LIVING ON MENTAL HEALTH
By: Mst. Sumsun Nahar Biswas, Md. Shariful Islam, Shiri Farhana
Key Words: Crowded Living, Mental Health, Residential Status
JLES-Vol-18-No-P-119-122, December 2023.
AbstractThe study was aimed to investigate the mental health of student of Rajshahi University as function of their family structure, present residential status and permanent residential status. The main objectives of the study were (1) to study the effect of family structure (joint family and nuclear family) on mental health (2) to study the effect of present residential status issue (dormitory and room) on mental health and (3) to study the effect of permanent residential status (urban and rural) on mental health. Here, three hypotheses were framed. The first hypothesis stated that the student of nuclear family would had better mental health than the student of joint family. The second hypothesis stated that the student of residing at room would have better mental health than the student of dormitory. The third hypothesis stated that the student of urban would had better mental health than the student of rural. The independent variables used in this study were present residential status, family structure and permanent residential status. Each independent variable had two levels such as dormitory/room, joint family /nuclear family and urban/rural respectively. The amount of Mental Health expressed by different comparison groups was the dependent variable. Here, 200 respondents were purposively selected from university students and were stratified into dormitory and room, joint family and nuclear family, and urban and rural. The study used General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) originally developed by Goldberg (1978) adapted by (Iliyas and Ayesha, 2001). A factorial design was used in this study. To analyze the collected data, mean, standard deviation, t-test were applied. Which confirm our 1st hypothesis. The findings on family structure in the present study showed that respondents of nuclear family had better mental health than respondents of joint family. These findings had supported to the first hypothesis of the present study. The finding on present residential status in the present study showed that respondents residing at room had better mental health than the respondents of dormitory. These findings had supported to the second hypothesis of the present study. The findings on permanent residential status in the present study showed that respondents of urban family had better mental health than respondents of rural family. These findings had supported to the third hypothesis of the present study.
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Mst. Sumsun Nahar Biswas, Md. Shariful Islam, Shiri Farhana
EFFECTS OF CROWDED LIVING ON MENTAL HEALTH
JLES-Vol-18-No-P-119-122, December 2023.
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