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Author: Dixit, Alka × Start date: 1966 × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Factors affecting academic anxiety among high and low achievers from Senior Secondary classes
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2022) Dixit, Alka; Vig, Deepika
    The present study entitled ‘Factors affecting academic anxiety among high and low achievers from Senior Secondary classes’, assessed the levels of academic anxiety and studied impact of contextual factors and personal traits on academic anxiety among high and low achievers. The sample comprised of 480 students (240 high and 240 low achievers) of class 11th and 12th from all streams (medical, non-medical, commerce and humanities) studying in six private schools of Ludhiana city. A self- structured general information sheet, Academic Anxiety Scale (Siddiqui and Rehman, 2017), Proactive Coping Inventory (Greenglass et al, 1999), Academic Resilience Scale (Malick and Kaur, 2015) and Bisht Battery of Stress Scales, 2005) were used to collect relevant data. Results of the study revealed that high achievers of medical stream were perceiving significantly more academic anxiety than high and low achievers of other three streams. Institutional stress and vocational stress was found highest among low achievers from medical stream and lowest among high achievers from humanities stream. Family stress was recorded highest among low achievers from non-medical stream while, lowest among low achievers from commerce stream. Non-medical high achievers from class 12th had highest overall proactive coping as they were better in use of positive coping strategies however, academic resilience was found highest among low achievers of humanities stream whereas, lowest in high achievers of non-medical stream from class 11th as well as class 12th. Furthermore, proactive coping, reflective coping, and strategic planning were found to have significant and negative correlation with academic anxiety among high chievers while, avoidance coping and instrumental support seeking were observed to have significant and positive correlation with academic anxiety among low achievers.