Positive Mental Health and its Association with Posture: With Reference to School Children

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10.2991/yishpess-cois-18.2018.66How to use a DOI?

Keywords

postural deformity, schoolchildren, positive mental health

Abstract

Mental health which has been viewed as positive aspect of health is one of the related concepts to quality of life. Various psychologists have also understood mental health in its positive perspectives. This model has considered major positive components of mental health, which are self-acceptance, ego-strength, and philosophy of human life/nature. Due to the importance of mental health in the quality of life, it is even more important for schoolchildren so that nation's future human resource will be mentally sound. It has been known that postural deformities affect human personality, but it is still unclear how this affects schoolchildren's positive mental health. Because of this, this study was conducted to comparatively assess positive mental health of schoolchildren with postural deformities. This study was conducted using 50 boys suffering from various postural deformities as samples. To meet the objectives of this study, another set of 50 schoolchildren without any postural deformities were also selected as sample. These samples were collected from B.M.C. Schools in Kurla and Mumbai, and these selected children were between the age ranges of six to twelve years. To assess their positive mental health, JPMH prepared by Agashe and Helode (2009) was used. The result of the study reveals that positive mental health of schoolchildren with postural deformities was significantly inferior when compared to that of schoolchildren without postural deformities. Because of this, it was concluded that postural deformity negatively affects positive mental health of schoolchildren. Therefore, it is recommended that proper screening for postural defects should be mandatory in schools to enhance and protect schoolchildren positive mental health.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ghansham K Dhokrat
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Positive Mental Health and its Association with Posture: With Reference to School Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Yogyakarta International Seminar on Health, Physical Education, and Sport Science (YISHPESS 2018) and 1st Conference on Interdisciplinary Approach in Sports (CoIS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 270
SN  - 2352-5398
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