• Dr. Nisha Chhabra

The aim of the present study was to compare Perceived Stress, Test anxiety and Self-efficacy between boys and girls students of college. Perceived stress and test anxiety are commonly found in students all over the world. To conduct the study a sample of hundred (N=100, male =50, female=50) college students of Amritsar city were selected and the age of subjects ranged between 20 to 24 years. Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen, (1980) was used to assess perceived stress, Test Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, 1980) was used to assess test anxiety and Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (Muris, 2001) was used to assess self-efficacy. The results indicate that girls (M=19.52, SD= 4.26) compared to boys (M=17.82, SD = 5.64) demonstrated significantly higher perceived stress scores, t(98) = 1.70, p = .046. Further, that boys (M=85.66, SD= 16.85) compared to girls (M=74.00, SD = 10.72) demonstrated significantly higher Self-efficacy scores, t(98) = 4.13, p = .01. Results also indicated that boys (M=52.30, SD= 5.60) compared to girls (M=51.44, SD = 6.02) demonstrated significantly no difference in test anxiety (and its sub variables) scores, t(98) = 0.74, p = .23. It can be concluded that college girl students experience high level of perceived stress than boys, boys showed higher level of self-efficacy than girls whereas test anxiety is experienced at same level by both girl as well boys.

Perceived Stress, Test Anxiety, Correlation, Self-efficacy, Gender, etc,.

"A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PERCEIVED STRESS, TEST ANXIETY AND SELF EFFICACY: GENDER DIFFERENCES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.903-911, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903K32.pdf

"A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PERCEIVED STRESS, TEST ANXIETY AND SELF EFFICACY: GENDER DIFFERENCES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp903-911, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903K32.pdf