Open AccessComparison of mental health status of married and unmarried girls of late adolescent age in an urban slum of Delhi
Author(s) -
Sujata Gupta,
Neha Taneja,
Sorabh Kapoor,
Amod Kumar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_204_19
Subject(s) - mental health , slum , marital status , checklist , medicine , demography , psychology , population , psychiatry , environmental health , sociology , cognitive psychology
Late adolescence age (16-19 years) is organized around central task of achieving an identity. In India, age at marriage for girls has been legally declared as 18 years, but many girls are married much before this age. Early marriage for girls can have profound psychological and emotional impacts.