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A Study of Locus of Control and Anxiety among Male and Female Graduate Students
Author(s) -
Arti Subhashrao Thale
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of indian psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-3429
pISSN - 2348-5396
DOI - 10.25215/0404.118
Subject(s) - locus of control , graduate students , psychology , anxiety , nonprobability sampling , significant difference , clinical psychology , locus (genetics) , test anxiety , demography , developmental psychology , medicine , biology , psychiatry , pedagogy , sociology , genetics , gene , population
Aim of the study: to investigate the locus of control and anxiety among male and female Graduate Students. Hypotheses: There was no significant difference between male and female Graduate Students with respect to locus of control. There was no significant difference between male and female Graduate Students with respect to anxiety. Methods: Sample: For the present study 100 Sample were belongings to Aurangabad, 50 subjects were male graduate students and 50 were female graduate students. The age range of subjects was 18-24 years. Purposive non-probability sampling technique was used. Tools Rotter’s Locus of Control Scale (1985): constructed by Dr. Anand Kumar and Dr. S. N. Srivastav. Sinha’s Comprehensive Anxiety Test (SCAT–SS): by A. K. P. Sinha and L. N. K. Sinha. Conclusions: Male Graduate Students had significantly locus of control (External Locus of Control) than the female Graduate Students (Internal Locus of Control). Female Graduate Students had significantly high anxiety than the male Graduate Students.