• Ms Monica
• Dr. Jaya Batra

The Present study is undertaken with a view to find out the Academic Anxiety prevailing among the Adolescents including two broader objectives, to study and compare the Academic Anxiety of Adolescents on the basis of gender; to study and compare the Academic Anxiety among rural and urban Adolescents. The sample of study was confined to 200 Adolescent students of IX and X classes covering Ludhiana district of Punjab (India) by multistage randomization techniques. Academic Anxiety Scale for children (AASC) by A. K. Singh and A. Sen Gupta (2018) were used for data collection. Levene’s test of equality of variances and t-test (at 0.05 level of significance) were used for analysis of data. Result of the study showed that Academic Anxiety of Adolescent girls was significantly more than Adolescent boys irrespective of their locality i.e. rural or urban. Urban Adolescents were significantly higher on Academic Anxiety trait as compare of their rural counterpart.

Academic,Anxiety,Adolescents,Gender,Locale

"ACADEMIC ANXIETY OF ADOLESCENTS IN RELATION TO GENDER AND LOCALE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no.f31-f41, January-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301505.pdf

"ACADEMIC ANXIETY OF ADOLESCENTS IN RELATION TO GENDER AND LOCALE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no. ppf31-f41, January-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301505.pdf