A Comparative Analysis of Examination Anxiety and Academic Achievement Motivation among Adolescents in Haryana State

  • Sushila Sharma, Anil Kumar

Abstract

This study has been made to find out the Examination Anxiety and Achievement Motivation amongadolescents with respect to their gender and types of school in the stateof Haryana. A sample of 600 students of class XIwas randomly selected using multistage random sampling method. In this study descriptive survey type method was used. Non-Verbal Test of Examination Anxiety by Aggarwal and Varsha (2012) and Academic Achievement Motivation testby Sharma (2014) were used to measure Examination Anxiety and Academic Achievement Motivation of respondents. For analysis of data mean, SD,t-test and product moment correlation were used. The result of the study concluded that gender has no significant effect on Examination Anxiety but types of school have a significant effect on Examination Anxiety of adolescents. In case of Academic Achievement Motivation it was found that gender has significant effect but types of school have no significant effect on Academic Achievement Motivation among adolescents.The study further indicated that there is a no significant relationship between Anxiety and Academic Achievement Motivation with respect to gender and types of schools.

Published
2019-12-30