Impact of Psychological Interventions in Reducing Anxiety among Adolescents

This research study attempts to observe the impact of Psychological Interventions on decreasing anxiety among adolescents. In order to achieve this objective, Sinha's and Sinha's Anxiety Scale was administered on 200 undergraduate students trom colleges of Goa. The adolescents who are in need of Psychological Interventions were identified on the basis of pre-test scores determined in the scale. On the basis of the obtained data, adolescents were than divided into experimental and control groups. Psychological Intervention were provided to those identified adolescent's of experimental group, over a period of one year. Later post-test data is collected from both the groups of adolescents. Further, paired 'f-test was applied to observe the impact of Psychological Intervention on the above data. The results of anxiety scores revealed that the obtained 'f value (13.44) is very highly significant (p<0.001). Hypothesis stating that there will be a significant reduction in anxiety, among Goan Adolescents after going through Psychological Interventions is proved through this paper.