Page No.233-239
Roshan Lal Zinta
Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla
The main goal of the present study to examine the effectiveness of guided
mastery treatment for reducing the test-anxiety in high and low self-efficacious
students studying in various senior secondary schools of Shimla town in H.P
(India). Beside this, an effort has also been made to examine test-anxiety and
effectiveness of guided mastery treatment on both scheduled castes and nonscheduled
caste students in relation to high and low in self-efficacy. For this a
final sample of n = 240 (120 SC + 120 NSC) were selected from a preliminary
sample of N = 2000 students. The criterion of selection in the final sample was
considered as M ± 1SD of the obtained score of General Self-efficacy Scale of
Hindi version and Test Anxiety Inventory Hindi version. The result revealed that
there were no significant difference in respect of test-anxiety and guided mastery
intervention in both the categories under study. In nutshell, the guided mastery
treatment was not found effective for eliminating test anxiety
.