Hypercompetitive Attitude and Achievement Anxiety among Young Adults

Abstract

The present study aims to find the relationship between hypercompetitive attitude and achievement anxiety among young adults. It also aims to measure the difference in hypercompetitive attitude and achievement anxiety among young adults based on educational qualification. The study was conducted on 125 young adults within an age group of 18-25 from various educational institutions from different districts in the state of Kerala and from the city of Bangalore. The tools used for the study were the hypercompetitive attitude scale and achievement anxiety test. The statistical analysis used were Pearson correlation to find the relationship between the variables and Anova test to find the significant difference. The sampling technique used for the study was snowball sampling. The study concludes that there is a no significant relationship between hypercompetitive attitude and achievement anxiety among young adults. The result also reveals that there is no significant difference hypercompetitive attitude and achievement anxiety among young adults based on educational qualification.