Mental Health Awareness as a Predictor of Academic Performance in Postgraduate Students

Mumtak Ering, Omini Ering and Raja Rajhans

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology, 2025, vol. 12, issue 2, 1353-1360

Abstract: Mental health plays a critical role in the academic success of postgraduate students because at this stage they often face with lots of academic pressure, competitive pressures and family expectations. In India, these challenges are heightened by limited mental health resources and cultural stigma. This study explored the relationship between mental health awareness and academic performance among 200 postgraduate students from Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh. The sample consisted of 100 students from Social Sciences and 100 students from Science & Technology. A Mental Health Awareness Questionnaire (MHAQ) and official Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) scores were used. Results showed a moderate positive correlation between awareness and CGPA (r = .42, p

Keywords: Mental Health Awareness; Academic Performance; Postgraduate Students; Indian Higher Education; Student Well-Being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ijsrst.com/home/article/view/IJSRST251222734 Abstract page (text/html)
https://ijsrst.com/home/article/download/IJSRST251222734/IJSRST251222734 Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:etm:ijsrst:v12:y2025:i2:id:1096

DOI: 10.32628/IJSRST251222734

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology from Technoscience Academy
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Pankaj Sharma ().