The present study focuses on the relationship between decision making and mental health of adolescents. Pearson product moment correlation and t-test show that decision making of adolescents is significantly and positively correlated to their mental health and its dimensions. The adolescents having good mental health, positive self evaluations, perceptions of reality, autonomy of work and environmental mastery, make sound and rational decisions in their everyday life. Further, the results show that adolescent boys possess better mental health in comparison to girls, but this gender difference was not found to be significant for decision making. Additionally, adolescents from private and government schools differ in decision making ability and mental health. The results show that adolescents studying in private school posses better mental health and good decision making ability in comparison to adolescents from government schools.
Keywords: Adolescents, Decision Making and Mental Health.