“Meta-Cognition, Self-Confidence & Peer Pressure As Determinants Of Academic Achievement Of Senior Secondary School Students”

Abstract

The aim of the current investigation was to explore meta-cognition, self-confidence and peer pressure as determinants of academic achievement of sr. sec. school students. ‘Academic achievement’ has taken as dependent variable while Meta-cognition (High & Low), Self-confidence (High & Low), and Peer pressure (High & Low) have been taken as independent variables. In the current investigation descriptive survey method was employed. 600 sr. sec. school students were chosen via random sampling technique. For the Academic achievement measure, the researcher had to depend upon the school examination record of the respective school of their previous class test scores i.e. 10^th class.  Meta-cognition Inventory by Singh and Bali (2017); Self-confidence Scale by Gupta and Lakhani (2018) and Peer Pressure Scale (PPS) by Saini and Singh (2010). The obtained data was analyzed using Mean, SD, t-test, ANOVA and co-efficient of correlation (r). It was found that all the independent variables i.e. meta-cognition, self-confidence and peer pressure, were positively correlated with school students’ academic achievement. A significant triple interaction effect of meta-cognition, self-confidence & peer pressure was found on academic achievement of school students.