Academic Anxiety among Adolescents in Relation to Socio-Emotional School Climate

The present study aims at studying the levels of Academic Anxiety among Adolescents in relation to Socio-Emotional School Climate. For this purpose a sample is taken which is the representative of the population. The investigator has used Academic Anxiety Scale (A. A. S. ) by Pal, Misra and Pandey (1985) and Socio-Emotional School Climate Inventory (S. E. S. C. I. ) by Sinha and Bhargava (1998) to collect the data. Non-probability method of sampling was followed for selection of Ludhiana district out of 20 districts of the state. Then, using the probability method of sampling, 10 secondary schools of Ludhiana district and further, the adolescents from these schools were selected. In all, a sample of 200 secondary students was drawn from the different schools of Ludhiana district. The result of the study showed that there is a negative relationship between academic anxiety and socio-emotional school climate among adolescents of Ludhiana district. The result also shows that academic anxiety did not differ significantly with respect to gender but shows a significant difference with respect to demographic location.