Effect of educational anxiety and gender on academic cheating of secondary school students: An analytical study

The present study was undertaken to examine the academic cheating among secondary school students in relation to educational anxiety and gender. Academic cheating was treated as dependent variable whereas educational anxiety and gender were treated as independent variables. Descriptive survey method was employed for the present study. A sample of 600 secondary school students was taken by using multi-stage random sampling technique. Academic cheating scale by Kalia and Deep (2011) and Educational anxiety scale by Dahiya and Dahiya (2018) were used to collect the data. The obtained data was analyzed using Two Way ANOVA with 3×2 factorial design. Levene's Test of Homogeneity of Variance was also applied to test the assumption of homogeneity of variance for ANOVA. Main effect of educational anxiety and gender found to have a significant effect on academic cheating of secondary school students. Further, Double interaction effects of educational anxiety and gender had a significant effect on academic cheating of secondary school students.