Impact of depression on the academic achievement of higher secondary school students

Abstract

Psychological disorders significantly exacerbate the pressure on students to score better. The factors collectively hamper their performance leadng to low academic achievement. This study aimed to find out the relationship between Depression and Academic Achievement. For this purpose 500 (250 boys and 250 girls) students of 12th standard studying in urban area of Durg district of Chhattisgarh state taken randomly. The ADSS (anxiety, depression and sress scale) was used to measure the depression among the students. To analyse data ‘t-test’ will be used. Furthermore depression and academic achievement was found to be significant negative association with each other.