Relationship Between Science Anxiety and Study Habits of the Students of IXth Standard

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the relationship between science anxiety and study habits of the students of IX standard. A descriptive survey research design was adopted on the basis of the nature of the study. 90 students among which 45 boys and 45 girls from four secondary schools from both rural and urban areas of Purba Bardhaman District have been selected by simple random sampling. The self-developed structured and validated Anxiety in Science Scale (ASS) and Study Habits Scale (SHS) were administered to estimate the science anxiety score and study habits score of the selected sample students. Mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation and t-test have been used for the analysis of the collected data. The results showed that there is a significant and inverse relationship between Science Anxiety and Study Habits of students of IXth standard. The result leads to infer that as the science anxiety increases, study habits of the students decrease. There is significant difference in science anxiety between boy and girl students of IXth standard. The girl students are found more anxious than the boys since the mean score of science anxiety of girl students are higher than that of the boys. There is no significant difference in science anxiety between rural and urban pupils. There is no significant gender difference in mean score of study habits. There is no significant difference in study habits between rural and urban students also. The result of the major hypothesis of the study leads to conclude that effective measures should be taken to control and minimise the science anxiety in order to enhance study habits.