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

Table 3

One-way ANOVA analysis for exam anxiety score by age, language, religion, parents’ education, and income (𝑛=100).

Variables	Mean	SD	df	𝐹	𝑃	𝑟	𝜂2
Age
15 years	61.642	7.61	3, 96	1.805	0.151	0.2	0.05
16 years	62.982	10.38
17 years	64.076	10.66
18 years	68.706	7.71
Language
Tamil	64.02	9.06	2, 97	0.251	0.779	0.07	0.005
Hindi	61.92	12.59
Others	65.18	11.68
Religion
Hindu	63.41	9.74	2, 97	0.966	0.384	0.1	0.02
Christian	66.114	9.02
Muslim	67.12	10.85
Parent’s education
Primary	65.2	5.32	2, 97	1.149	0.321	0.1	0.02
Secondary	65.25	8.9
Graduate	62.15	11.58
Parent’s income
<Rs.5000	64.28	9.41	2, 97	0.869	0.422	0.1	0.02
>Rs.5000	63.1	9.98
>Rs.10,000	66.52	9.785

M: mean; SD: standard deviation; df: degrees of freedom; 𝐹: one-way ANOVA; η2: measure of effect size for ANOVA.