Anxiety and job satisfaction

The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between anxiety and job satisfaction. A job satisfaction questionnaire and IPAT Anxiety Scale were administered to a sample of 25 male and 25 female employees. The Pearson Product Coefficient of Correlation was computed for the whole group, as well as for the males and females separately. Although inverse relation was found for all the 3 groups yet the result was significant only for the male workers. Further the differences between male and female employees was insignificant for job satisfaction as well as for anxiety. When job satisfaction of moderately anxious group was compared with high anxious group, again the result was insignificant

study of the relationship of manifest anxiety with school achievement of 10th grade students

This study investigated the nature of relationships between anxiety and school achievement of 300 Pakistani adolescents [male and female]. An anxiety scale was administrated under non stress conditions about 3 months before the final examination. The achievement scores were the percentage scores obtained by the same subjects in their final examination held by the Karachi Board. The Pearson Product Coefficient of Correlation was computed for the whole group, as well as for the males and females separately. The conclusions were: [a] the relationship between these 2 variables is curvilinear, thus supporting the inverted - U hypothesis and [b] this relationship holds for both males and females