The Effect Of Stress And Anxiety On Performance

The present study purported to investigate the effect of stress on the response of high-anxiety and lowanxiety 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.