Status of positive mental health among elderly people of Tehri Uttarakhand

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to determine the status of positive mental health in elderly people of Tehri Uttarakhand. In this study, 600 elderly people from Tehri District of Uttarakhand were chosen purposively. The sample includes 300 male elderly and 300 female elderly. The sample belongs to the age bracket of 60 to 75 years of age. With the help of non-probability sampling, only those elderly without any serious health complications were selected. The Hindi inventory for assessment of positive mental health developed by Agashe and Helode (2007) was used. Result indicative of the scientific fact that 17.7% elderly (N=106) had a lower degree of positive mental health; 52.1% elderly (N=313) possesses a moderate level of positive mental health whereas 30.2% elderly (N=181) possesses a high level of positive mental health. So the percentage of senior citizens with low positive mental health is least in this geriatric group while the majority of the elderly had moderate positive mental health (P