Mental Health Status in Relation to Personality Adjustment of the Faculty of Perpetual Help College of Manila: Its Implications to the Development of Teaching

Abstract

This was undertaken with the main purpose of determining the Mental Health Status and Adjustment Status of the faculty of Perpetual Help College of Manila: It’s implications to the development of teaching.The study made used of Mental Health Status by Thorpe and Clark and the Bell Adjustment Inventory (Adult Series) with the descriptive-normative method of research. The respondents were the164 faculty members of Perpetual Help College of Manila School Year 2016 -2017. The data were treated statistically through the use of percentages, chi-square test of relationship to determine if the Mental Health and Adjustment is significantly related to organizational related factors such as length of service and education, and pearson-product moment correlation to determine the significance of correlation between mental healthstatus and personality traits. The findings of the study revealed that the respondents were still young in the service that the mental assets and liabilities were low. The five areas of adjustment were average, and it shows that education is an organizational factor that influenced the mental health status while the length of service is an organizational related factor that affects the adjustment status of the respondents.