IMPACT OF PERCEIVED ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ON SELF-CONFIDENCE IN UNDERGRADUATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Psychology

Present era is the age of competition. Everyone is running so as to make others a step behind in this competitive world. Scholastic achievement has therefore been an important development task, which the pre-adolescents and the adolescents are expected to attain. In society today, academic performance plays an essential role in many peoples’ lives. This study aims to see the effect of perceived academic achievement on the level of self-confidence undergraduate students. The study was conducted on a sample of university going students N = 100 (male and female) by administering the Agnihotri’s Self-Confidence Inventory (ASCI) constructed by Dr. Rekha Agnihotri. The participants belonged to the age group of 17-21 years were taken from Dev Sanskriti University, Haridwar (UK). The study follows Expost Facto Research Design to draw interface regarding relationship between study variables. To test the hypothesis independent sample t-test was applied. Result shows that there was statistically significant difference on self-confidence between students having high academic record (M = 12.52, SD = 7.98) and students having low academic record (M = 20.32, SD = 12.04). The findings revealed that high academic achievers have more self-confidence than low academic achievers.

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