Effect of risk taking behaviour on academic achievement of adolescence

Pages: 594-599
Niti Shukla and Nanki Monga (Department of Psychology, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Panjab)

Adolescents have curiosity towards new behaviour and they want to experience without thinking much about consequences. During the phase of adolescence peer learning is on the peak and human behaviour is highly affected by his/her surroundings. All these aspects must have impact on adolescents’ achievement of various goals in their lives. The current study attempted to investigate the risk taking behaviour of adolescents and their academic achievements during their schools. A sample of 40 adolescents including boys (20) and girls (20) in the age range of 15-17 years studying in schools at South Delhi was investigated for its academic achievement motivation by classifying them on the nature of risk taking behaviour, i.e. moderate and high risk taking behaviour. Majority of the participants (90%) were noticed with moderate risk taking tendencies. All the girl adolescents (100%) were there with moderate risk taking behaviour whereas boys (20%) were also found with high risk taking tendencies other than moderate (80%) category of risk taking behaviour. The risk taking behaviour of adolescents was significantly correlated with their academic achievements (r= -0.41). The findings suggest investigating the risk taking behaviour at school level and counselling the adolescent students in context of their immediate and long-term goals.