Academic anxiety among selected rural and urban adolescents of Telangana state

Abstract

Academic anxiety is a mental sensitivity of uneasiness or distress in response to school or college circumstances that is perceived negatively. Academic Anxiety is a state of distress induced by a student’s appraisal of excessive academic demands. The current study was undertaken to study the levels of academic anxiety among rural and urban adolescents of Telangana state. The sample consisted of 240 adolescents where 120 were from rural area and 120 were from urban area. Academic anxiety scale developed by Siddiqui and Rehman (2019) was used to study the levels of academic anxiety. The results inferred that adolescents experienced average to higher levels of anxiety irrespective of gender and residence. A significant difference was found between mean scores of urban and rural adolescents at 0.01 level. Urban adolescents experienced more academic anxiety than rural adolescents. The study concludes that both internal and external factors influence the degree to which the adolescents experience the academic anxiety and need for counselling and psychological support systems at institution level.