Approval Motive as an Interactive Predictor of Mental Health

Abstract

The desire to be socially approved is a very common desire found in every individual and drives the individual to behave in socially approved manner and to be health. In present study, Approval Motive Scale (AMS; Tripathy and Tripathy, 1988) and Middlesex
Hospital Questionnaire (MHQ; Shrivastava and Bhat, 1981) were administered on a
sample which consisted of 100 adolescents (50 boys and 50 girls) of 15 to 21 years of age
range. Results indicated statistically significant difference in adolescents on approval
motives, free floating anxiety, phobia, somatic complaints, depression and overall M.
H. Q. The findings of the study also show that approval motives is negatively related
with overall M. H. Q. and its dimension viz. free floating anxiety, obsession- compulsion,
phobia, somatic complaints, depression and hysteria.