A study of relationship of Academic stress and achievement Motivation among higher secondary students

The purpose of the present study was to find-out relationship of Academic stress and achievement motivation among higher secondary students 200 students from U.P board and 200 students from CBSE board were randomly selected from ten school of U.P board and Ten school from CBSE board of Meerut district on the basis of their scores on Academic stress scale developed by Akbar Husain & Tabassum Rashid. Achievement motivation was measured with the help of Deo Mohan achievement motivation (n-ach) scale developed by Pratibha Patil & Asha Mohan. The date was statistically treated by using Pearson correlation formula & X2. Test the results clearly revealed that academic stress of higher secondary students of U.P board was negatively correlated with achievement motivation, on the other hand in CBSE board also, Academic stress negatively correlated with achievement motivation but correlation coefficient value among CBSE board students is slightly lower than U.P board student but correlation coefficient value between above two variables among girls of U.P board is slightly lower than boys, but in CBCE board correlation value among girls in slightly lower than boys shows that CBSE girls have more academic stress and low achievement motivate than boys