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1 Department of Psychology, Dagdoji Rao Deshmukh College, Waluj, Maharastra, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 2, No 2 (2011), Pagination: 478-480
Abstract
Academic anxiety is a common issue that students cannot ignore if they want to succeed in school. Further language is purely the reflection of one's emotional and attitudinal fluctuation, thoughts and episodic personality. The concern of present research was to investigate the effect of medium (language) on students' academic anxiety. Total sample of the present investigation comprised of 60 students. Whole sample was constituted with equal number of English and Marathi medium (language) students. To control the gender bias both groups were made with equal number of male and female students. Academic anxiety Scale for Children: Singh and Gupta (1971), was administered on selected sample. To analyze the data the present investigation employed two group randomized design and data was analyzed by t-test. Result revealed that English medium students were significantly lesser in their level of academic anxiety as compare to Marathi medium students.
