A Study on Value Conflicts and Mental Health of Students at the Higher Secondary Level in Relation to their Social Maturity

Abstract

Every one today appears to be tenser than the past either due to lack of understanding and confidence among themselves or because of psychopathic morbidities like parent child relationship, loveless domestic life, broken families, global terrorism and narrow considerations. Values have sunken to gain their selfish motives. People can be both humanly pro-social and destructively anti-social as they are not necessarily aware of their values, some may even conflict with conscious values.  A child is born in a home where he remains in the constant company of his mother in the formative years of his infancy. The impressions and experiences which a child has in these formative years leave permanent and indelible impressions on his mind.  It is at times minimal or immense, at times ridden or open and at times constructive or destructive, any time in making a choice at the cost of another, conflict is a perceived incompatibility of actions and goals that prevents, obstructs interfere, injuries or in some way makes another activity less likely or less effective. Health is a state of being hale, sound or whole in body and mind. It means that both body and mind are working efficiently and harmoniously. Man is an integrated psychometric unit, whose behaviour is determined by both physical and mental factors.