Effect of Socio-Economic Status on Anxiety of Secondary School Students

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to reveal effect of socio-economic status on anxiety of secondary school students. The sample of study comprised of 180 students drawn from ninth standard of government aided schools of Nagpur city. Statistical analysis was done on the data to arrive at the results. The ‘t' test was used to examine the significance of difference between low socio-economic and high socio-economic status students as well as across gender with regard to anxiety. The findings showed that the anxiety level of low socio-economic status students is more than that of high socio-economic students. It was further revealed that, with respect to gender, the girls' anxiety is slightly more than that of boys.