Test Anxiety Levels of Board Exam Going Students in Tamil Nadu, India

Table 2

Independent sample 𝑡-test analysis for exam anxiety score by gender, class, and family type (𝑛=100).

Variables	M	SD	df	𝑡	𝑃	𝑟^2	Levene’s test (𝑃 value)
Gender
Male	69.024	8.01	98	5.736	0.000	0.5	0.06
Female	59.296	8.92
Standard
10th	61.854	9.30	98	−2.002	0.048^∗	0.2	0.898
12th	65.763	9.81
Family type
Nuclear	66.73	10.49	95.946	2.951	0.004^∗	0.3	0.045
Joint	61.26	8

M: mean; SD: standard deviation; df: degrees of freedom; 𝑡: independent sample 𝑡-test; ^∗𝑃<0.05 is considered as statistically significant; 𝑟²: effect size.