Academic Anxiety towards Academic Achievement among Secondary School Students: A Psychological Study of Samastipur District, India
Quick Response Code Abstract: Psychological stress, anxiety makes bad and creates a problematic situations on students to perform better. The factors collectively hamper their performance leading to low academic achievement. Having surveyed the literature, it has been observed that in Bihar state a few studies have been witnessed especially in the field of academic anxiety and academic achievement of the students in last decades. Hence, the present study is aimed to fill that gap and efforts are made to find out the levels of anxiety towards academic achievement. Thus, for the present study one hundred eighty (N=180) students which comprises the students obtained above 70 marks (n=60) 60 to 69 (n=60) and below 60 marks obtained by the students in the half yearly examinations (n=60) of IX th standard students studying in government schools located in and around the area of Samastipur district of North Bihar, India were selected randomly. For collecting the data on academic anxiety a scale "Academic Anxiety Scale for Children" (AASC) developed by Singh and Gupta (2005) was used and on the other hand, academic achievement was measured on the basis of performance of half yearly examination of school test. Having collected the data on the items of the test, the individual scores were obtained as per norms and procedure of the tests for giving statistical treatment. Obtained results revealed that there are significant differences between the different groups of students in terms of their degree of academic anxiety towards their academic achievement, although all students had shown moderate levels of academic anxiety. Obtained results have been discussed in detail by giving appropriate reasons in the context of North Bihar, India.