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Volume : III, Issue : VI, July - 2013 The Effect Of Stress And Anxiety On Performance Pradip N. Jaiswal Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The present study purported to investigate the effect of stress on the response of high-anxiety and low-anxiety male and female students (response measure being scores on selective attention task) The sample consisted of 75 subject. The subjects were the students of science college, Modasa (H.North Gujarat Unviversity, Patan, Gujarat.) the subject were administered the IPAT Anxiety scale questionnaire form individually. For the selective attention task, the multiple choice Reaction Tester and Electric shock Apparatus were used. The score obtained by each subject on the selective attention task was subjected to A×B×C factorial design with repeated measure on one factor. Factor A, B and C are stress, anxiety and sex respectively. Each factor has affects performance in an attention task adversely, anxiety like stress deteriorated performance, sex does not have any effect on performance, the effect of stress and non-stress is dependent of sexes, stress and non-stress, in addition to anxiety were also found to be significant affecting performance. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Pradip N. Jaiswal, (2013). The Effect Of Stress And Anxiety On Performance. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. VI, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2654.pdf References : - i.Mcguigan, F.J. Experimental Psychology : Methodological approaches, New Delhi : 1998 ii.Bhattacharyya Dipak Kumar, (2010) Research Methodology, New Delhi : Excel Printers, C-205, Naraina. iii.Edwards, A.L. Experimental Design in Psychological Research. (Third edition), New Delhi, Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. (1996). iv.Hodges, W.F. & Spielberger, C.D. The effect of threat of shock on heart rate for subjects who differ in manifest anxiety and fear of shock. Psychophysiology, 2 (4), 287-294. (1986). v.Jehannan, S. Effects of anxiety on the range & cue utilization : A signal detection analysis. Dissertation Abstract International, 33 (4-B), P. 1778. (1972). vi.Leelavathi, G. & Venkataramaih, S.R. Effect of anxiety on certain paranters of the theory of signal detectability (TSD). Indian Journal of Clincal Psychology, 3, 35-39. (1996). vii.Noble, C.E. & Hays, J.R. Discrimination Reaction performance as a function of anxiety & sex parameters. Journal of Perceptual & Motor Skills, 23, 1267-1277. (1999).
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- Bhattacharyya Dipak Kumar, (2010) Research Methodology, New Delhi : Excel Printers, C-205, Naraina.
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