Impact of gender and academic achievement on educational anxiety

Abstract

Educational anxiety refers to the feeling of nervousness, worry, or stress that students experience related to their academic responsibilities and performance. It is a kind of anxiety related to the learning institution, learning environment, ineffective study habits, or from the examination. The present study aims to investigate educational anxiety among adolescents. A sample of 200 adolescents, comprised of 100 males and 100 females, were selected using stratified random sampling. Data was randomly drawn from the three districts of Kumaon region of Uttarakhand by using the Educational Anxiety Inventory developed by Sood and Anand (2012). For statistical analysis two-way ANOVA was used. The results revealed significant differences at .05 level among the groups concerning Academic Anxiety, Test Anxiety, and Educational Anxiety. Additionally, a significant difference was found between male and female adolescents in terms of Test Anxiety. Furthermore, there was a significant interaction effect found between gender and academic achievement on levels of Academic Anxiety, Test Anxiety and Educational Anxiety.