Role of Personality, Culture and Gender in Academic Anxiety

Purpose of the present research is to examine the role of personality, culture and sex in academic anxiety. It is hypothesized thatthe students scoring low on Factor C (Lower ego-strength) would exhibit higher degree of academic anxiety as compared to the students scoring high on Factor C (Higher ego-strength), urban students would show higher academic anxiety as compared to tribal students and the male students would show higher academic anxiety than the female students. One thousand students of class 11th and 12thrandomly selected from different schools of Chhattisgarh were used as the subjects. Half of the subjects were male and remaining half were females. Half of the subjects were taken taken from urban area and remaining half were taken from the tribal area. Academic Anxiety of the subjects was measured by the Academic Anxiety Scale developed by Singh and Sen Gupta (1984).The result indicates that the personality do have the significant role in academic anxiety of the students. An analysis of the data also showed that the cultures do have the significant role in determining academic anxiety of the students and the sex significantly, affects the academic anxiety of the students and female students show higher academic anxiety than the males. The results of the present study have given very important information for minimizing the academic anxiety. These results give insight as to how we can minimize their academic anxiety by providing them such environment which should be responsible for generating less academic anxiety. The study may prove its high significance to minimize academic anxiety and to develop personality that would help in academic achievement.