Emotional Regulation and Goal Setting among Students Preparing for NEET Exam

Abstract

The primary aim of this study was to examine the association between goal-setting and emotional regulation among students preparing for the NEET exam. It is an entrance exam for students seeking to join graduate medical or dental programmes at public or private medical colleges in India. The goal of NEET is to lessen the financial and psychological burden that medical students bear, as they are required to take up to 17 different exams throughout the nation in an expensive, time-consuming, stressful, complicated, and frequently opaque system. Since they need to pass competitive tests to enroll in professional programs, Indian students are under a great deal of pressure to perform well and compete. The goal-setting and emotional regulation of NEET applicants has not been extensively researched. The current study examined the relationship between emotional regulation and goal-setting among students preparing for the NEET exam. The researcher used an ex post facto study design, a convenient sampling technique, to collect data from 232 NEET aspirants. The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and the Goal Setting Formative Questionnaire were used. The study’s findings indicate a strong correlation between goal-setting and emotional regulation.