MENTAL HEALTH AND ACADEMIC VALIDATION: A STUDY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES STUDIES

The association between mental illness and academic validity has been observed in several studies. The current study is to investigate the association between mental illness and academic validation among social sciences students at University Selangor. For this aim, 150 students from the Department of Social Sciences at University Selangor were chosen by filling out Google Forms based on mental illness and academic validation survey questionnaires. To obtain data on mental illness, the general health questionnaire (GHQ-12) was utilized, with 5 items for academic validation. The data were then analysed with the statistical program Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) to evaluate the hypothesis. The findings indicate that there is a small positive association between mental illness and academic validity. Finally, the data were examined using a correlation coefficient with a confidence level of 90%. The findings revealed that general health and some of its components, such as depression and anxiety, were significantly related to educational performance, whereas no significant relationship was found between academic validation and other components, such as physical symptoms and social performance disorders. According to the findings of this study, the higher the students' mental health, the better their educational validation, albeit it appears that other elements and their interactional effects also influence the students' educational validity.