Page No 137-146
Manglesh Kumar Manglam
Central University of South Bihar, Gay
For both adults and late adolescents, psychological problems is an essential component
of overall health. The psychological issue that affects students most frequently include
anxiety, depression, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders, and obsessive-compulsive
disorder. The current study set out to evaluate the psychological problems that senior
secondary school students were facing. 150 students from Gaya, India, ages 14 to 20
years, were selected for the sample using a simple random sampling procedure; 75 of
the students were male and the remaining 75 were female. The symptoms checklist90 was used to evaluate the dimensions of psychological problems. The exclusion
criteria included any history of head trauma and neurological problems. All participants
provided written informed consent. The University’s Ethics Committee gave its approval
to the study. 9.3% of the total sample reported somatization, 16.0% reported obsessivecompulsive, 14.0% reported interpersonal sensitivity, 10.7% reported depression, 10.0%
reported anxiety, 14.7% reported anger hostility, 13.3% reported phobic anxiety, 14.7%
reported paranoid ideation, and 6.0% reported psychoticism. Compared to the male
students, the female students scored higher on all the dimensions of psychological
problems.