Abstract
The present study aimed to examine the role of social support as a predictor of mental health among
university students. The sample comprised 150 students; age ranges from 18 to 30 years were taken from
different universities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Translated Mental Health Inventory (having two
subscales: psychological wellbeing and psychological distress) and Translated Provisions of Social
Relations Scale (Having two subscales: family support and peer support) were used for assessment.
Findings indicated that family support and peer support were positively correlated with psychological
wellbeing and negatively correlated with psychological distress. It also showed that social support
positively predicts mental health among university students. Female university students are high on
psychological wellbeing, have high family support and high peer support than male university students.
There were non-significant differences between the university students of below and above 20 years of
age and graduate and undergraduate on all the research variables.
Mussarat Jabeen Khan , Aafsa Arif. (2019) Role of Social Support as Predictor of Mental Health Among University Students, Journal of Research and Reflections in Education, Volume 13, Issue 1.
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