RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANXIETY AND PSYCHOMOTOR ABILITIES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS

The present study was conducted to know the relationship between Anxiety and the psychomotor variables of college students. To determine: the characteristics of psychomotor variables of college students, the relationship between psychomotor abilities and anxiety of college students and the combined contribution of psychomotor abilities to anxiety on college students. Fifty students (boys) were selected as the subjects for the study from Government College Hoshiarpur. The age ranged from 18-25 years and the following psychomotor variables were taken for study: differentiation ability, kinesthetic perception, reaction time and visual perception. Descriptive statistics was used to characterize the psychomotor abilities of college students. Product moment correlation was used to determine the relationship among psychomotor abilities and anxiety of college students. To know the combined contribution of psychomotor abilities on anxiety Multiple Correlation was applied and the level of significance was set as 0.05. Among all the psychomotor variables i.e. differentiation ability (15.184.014), Kinesthetic Perception (25.1011.92), Visual Perception (.37 Reaction time (.08.028), Kinesthetic Perception in boys were having greater mean in comparison to other psychomotor variables. The results obtained from the analysis of data revealed that the attribution variable i.e. Differentiation ability was negatively related to the anxiety. It also revealed that there was an insignificant relationship found in relation to kinesthetic perception, Visual perception and reaction time with the anxiety of college students. There was a significant relationship found between criterion variable (anxiety) and independent variable (Differentiation Ability, Kinesthetic Perception, Visual Perception, Reaction Time) because the calculated value (0510) was greater than the tabulated value (.288) at 48 d.f