COMPREHENSIVE ANXIETY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

During the past three decades or so, the concept of anxiety has figured prominently in the psychological literature. Man is ambitious by nature. He has so many aspirations and desires to be fulfilled. He plans and strives hard for his realization but it may be possible that despite his best planning and efforts he may not get the desired success. At times he finds himself in a state of utter confusion and bewilderment. All the paths for going ahead sum to be blocked. This creates some sort of fear in an individual the fear of failure in a particular task makes him inactive which puts him into a ‘state’ or ‘condition’ that can be termed as Anxiety. To make this term clear let us take some definitions given by eminent writers.