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SELF-ACCEPTANCE AND ANXIETY OF ADOLESCENTS: ITS LINKAGE TO THEIR ETHNICITY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
By: Md. Nurul Islam, Mohd. Ashik Shahrier, Md. Nurul Absar
Key Words: Academic achievement, anxiety, ethnicity, self-acceptance
JLES-Vol-9-No-P-97-105-, December 2014
AbstractThe present study aimed at investigating the relationships between self-acceptance and anxiety of 320 ethnic adolescents of Bangladesh in regards to ethnicity and academic achievement. Bengali version of Self-Acceptance Questionnaire (Ilyas, 2001) and Bengali version of Dutt Personality Inventory (Khanam and Arjumand, 2002) were used to collect data. Findings revealed that both ‘Bengali’ and ‘High Achiever’ ethnic adolescents expressed higher self-acceptance and lower anxiety as compared to their ‘Tribal’ and ‘Low Achiever’ counterpart respectively. From results, significant negative correlations have been found between self-acceptance and anxiety of ethnic adolescents, indicating that lower anxiety leads an adolescent to develop better self-acceptance or the lower self-acceptance is vulnerable to higher anxiety. Value of adjusted R2 through regression analysis revealed that anxiety was an important predictor that can explain 7.4% variance of the adolescents’ self-acceptance.
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Md. Nurul Islam, Mohd. Ashik Shahrier, Md. Nurul Absar
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