Family Environment and Academic Anxiety of School Girls from Government and Private Schools

The present study was conducted to assess the family environment and academic Anxiety of school going girls. The sample for the study consists of 30 government school girls and 30 private school girls. All the subjects were selected from 12th standard. The children were administered the family envrronment scale (Moos & Moos,1974) and academic anxiety scale Singh and Sengupta (1984). The most important findings are as follows. The private school girls have obtained significantly higher mean than the government school children in cohesion and control dimension of family environment. The government school girls have obtained significantly higher mean than the private school girls in achievement orientation, moral religious emphasis and organization. In academic anxiety the government school girls have significantly higher academic anxiety in comparison to private school girls. The correlations between family environment and academic anxiety are low and negative. There is positive correlation between active recreational orientation and academic anxiety in private school girls.