Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2017

Effectiveness of Exam Anxiety Reduction Intervention among Adolescents

N. Suresh Kumar, Dr. Rajakumari, M. Nithyanandan

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 All of us experiences anxiety in our daily life. This study intends to estimate exam anxiety among the students studying in the selected Government higher secondary school at Madurai.The objectives are to assess the level of exam anxietybefore and afterexam anxiety reduction intervention, to evaluate the effectiveness of exam anxiety reduction intervention and to associate exam anxiety scores of the adolescents with selected demographic variables. Charles Spielberger’s (1980) Test Anxiety Inventory was used for this study. 50 students who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria was included in the analysis. Paired sample t–test was conducted to test the effectiveness and chi–square analysis was carried over to test the association among socio–demographic variables. The study showed that exam anxiety was identified in the pretest 26 (52%) adolescents with moderate level and 21 (42%) of them with Mild level. After the exam anxiety reduction intervention modules (it includes study & learning skills, time management, memory enhancement, and relaxation techniques) the level of exam anxiety among the adolescents was reduced. It was proven by student paired sample t–test method and its t–value is =2.6 and for that concurrent table value 1.96 shows that statistically highly significant at 0.05 level.  

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N.Suresh Kumar, Dr.RajaKumari, M.Nithyanandan, Effectiveness of Exam Anxiety Reduction Intervention among Adolescents, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾6 | June‾2017

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