Academic Anxiety among Teenage Girls: An Analytical Approach

Academic anxiety is inevitably detrimental to a student's performance if it is unmanageable.Consequently, a student's concern for particular academic pursuits decreases as anxiety increases. High academic anxiety levels hinder students' ability to pay attention and process information. Objective: The major objectives of the study were to assess and compare the academic anxiety among 12th - class girls of different academic streams (Arts, Science, and commerce). Methods: This research used a survey methodology; the data was collected by using an academic anxiety scale (AAS-SAMRUA) English (New) (2017) by M. Abid Siddiqui and Atieq VR Rehman. The results were interpreted by using frequency, percentage and ‘t-tests. Result: According to the study's findings, none of the students had aextremely low level of academic anxiety, only 10% of students had low academic anxiety and below average academic anxiety, 45% had average academic anxiety, and 94% had above average academic anxiety. Whereas 38% of students came under high academic anxiety and only 3% were falling under extremely high academic anxiety. Conclusion: According to the t-test results, the null hypothesis "There is a significant difference in anxiety levels among students of Arts and Science as well as Science and Commerce" is rejected. However, the null hypothesis "There is no substantial difference in the degree of anxiety between Arts and Commerce" is acknowledged