Volume 10 : Issue 10.4 (2023)

A Study of Academic Resilience in Relation to Academic Anxiety of School Learners

Academic resilience may be regarded as a factor for attenuating the effect of mental health concerns like anxiety and particularly academic anxiety of students. Taking into consideration the protective function of academic resilience the present study was undertaken, with the objective of studying the academic resilience and academic anxiety of secondary school students; their correlation and the contribution of different dimensions of academic resilience in predicting the academic anxiety of learners. For the present research data were collected from a sample of 320 school learners studying in different secondary schools of District Lucknow using Simple random sampling technique. T-Test, Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation and Regression analysis were the statistical techniques employed for data analysis. Results of the study revealed no significant difference in the mean scores of academic resilience of male and female secondary school learners. However, a significant difference was found in the academic anxiety of school learners on the basis of gender. Female learners were wound to be more academically anxious as compared to male learners. In addition to this, the correlation analysis revealed a significant and negative correlation between academic resilience and academic anxiety of secondary school learners. Furthermore, the results of the regression analysis revealed that different dimensions of academic resilience significantly predict the academic anxiety of learners.

Academic resilience, academic anxiety, well-being, perseverance, problem solving ability and secondary school learners.

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