Relationship between Academic Stress and Self-efficacy among NEET aspirants

This study evaluated the effect of academic stress on self-efficacy among NEET aspirants in and around Mangalore (Dakshina Kannada District) of Karnataka state. The sample consisted of an equal number of boys (100) and girls (100) aged between 16 and 20 years and was chosen from 4 different Pre-University colleges. The aspirants completed the Academic stress inventory (Lin & Chen,2009) and the student self-efficacy (Dahiya & Kumari, 2018) scale. Pearson’s product -moment correlation was employed to find out the significant relationship between academic stress and self-efficacy. One-way ANOVA was employed to find the effect of various dimensions of self-efficacy on NEET aspirants with varied levels of academic stress. Result of the correlation revealed that there is a significant negative relationship between academic stress and self-efficacy, with r value of -0.646 which was found highly significant at the 0.001 level. As the academic stress increased, self-efficacy decreased linearly and significantly and vice-versa. The results of One-way ANOVA reveal that the low, moderate and high levels of academic stress of NEET aspirants will differ significantly in various domains of self-efficacy: physical self-efficacy, social self-efficacy, emotional self-efficacy, academic self-efficacy and spirituality self-efficacy. Implication of the findings of the study have been delineated.