ACADEMIC ANXIETY AND CAREER ASPIRATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY AMONG JKBOSE AND CBSE SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF CENTRAL KASHMIR

Abstract

At the initiation of the school, the child does not acquaint with any type of information or knowledge about his career choices but when he accomplishes the basic academics of school life, he faces the multiple realities of the world around him. It is the time when he has to plan for the future courses of action where career choices are made and careers are to be chosen. The individual chooses and develop those career aspirations which will help them to deal with the fast-changing world and its demands. It is during this period that adolescents are troubled with the difficulty of building a choice to decide the vocation of their choice and interest. Most of the adolescents find it hard to choose appropriate career option because of lack of proper guidance and academic anxiety. This is the stage where adolescent learners need to be properly guided about different career option available to them so that may not face any type of difficulty to choose the appropriate career option and save them from landing into the world of anxiety.  Investigator is interested to find out the influence of academic anxiety on career aspiration of secondary school students. The study finds out the that there is major variance among CBSE & JKBOSE students on composite score of Career Aspiration which indicates that CBSE students performed better on overall score of Career aspiration Scale than JKBOSE students. It further points out that the major difference among CBSE & JKBOSE students on over all composite score of Academic Anxiety and the difference between two groups is statistically significant at 0.01level.