Relationship between Mental Health and Critical Thinking Ability among Students at Senior Secondary Level

Contemporary world of digital communication and solo lifestyle make living fast and challenging. This also leads to depression and lack of prospective thought in individuals. Again, engrossment in digital devices and obsession with external performance leads to internal reflection resulting in lack of critical thinking for self-development. The present study concerns these prevalent psychological variables i.e. mental health and critical thinking. A sample size of 100 subjects of Standard XII from the Senior Secondary Schools in the District of North 24 Parganas in West Bengal, India, have been selected by adopting stratified random sampling method. The study was intended to find the effect of genders on Mental health and critical thinking ability of senior secondary students. The mutual effects of each of the variables i.e. Mental health and Critical thinking on each other are also tested in the study along with their correlation and predictability. The study found no significant gender effect on mental health and critical thinking. It was found that Critical thinking ability has a significant effect on mental health and mental health and critical thinking are inversely correlated. Again, regression analysis shows predictability of decrease in mental health with a boost of critical thinking ability of Students at the Senior Secondary level.