The Effect Of Stress And Anxiety On Performance

<p>The present study purported to investigate the effect of stress on the response of high-anxiety and lowanxiety male and female students (response measure being scores on selective attention task) The sample consisted<br>of 75 subject. The subjects were the students of science college, Modasa (H.North Gujarat Unviversity, Patan,<br>Gujarat.) the subject were administered the IPATAnxiety scale questionnaire form individually. For the selective<br>attention task, the multiple choice Reaction Tester and Electric shock Apparatus were used. The score obtained by<br>each subject on the selective attention task was subjected to A×B×C factorial design with repeated measure on one<br>factor. Factor A, B and C are stress, anxiety and sex respectively. Each factor has affects performance in an attention<br>task adversely, anxiety like stress deteriorated performance, sex does not have any effect on performance, the effect<br>of stress and non-stress is dependent of sexes, stress and non-stress, in addition to anxiety were also found to be<br>significant affecting performance.</p> <p>