An Interactional Study of Academic Anxiety in relation to Socio- Economic Status, Gender and School type among Secondary School Students

Academic Anxiety is a common phenomenon prevalent among all the students studying at different levels of education. Moderate level of Anxiety is essential for success in academics. However, severe academic anxiety proves to be destructive for students, because it is negatively correlated with academic performance. Academic anxiety has attracted the attention of various researchers working in the field of education. It has been studied in relation to number of factors like personal, familial, social and educational as proved by review of related literature. Socio-economic factor as reported by many researchers is an important variable which influences aspirations, motivation, adjustment, anxiety levels and other aspects of education. Present study has been selected to find out the levels of academic anxiety with respect to school type, gender, socio-economic status of secondary school students. The study has revealed that low socio economic status school students and female students suffer more from academic anxiety, Interactional effects doesn’t have significant difference on academic anxiety except socio-economic status.