RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEAR AND THE STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF WAR HAZARDS

Mati Ullah; Muhammad Saqib Khan; Khalid Sultan

Mati Ullah Department of Education & Research, Sub-Campus, Lakki Marwat, UST Bannu
Muhammad Saqib Khan Department of Management Sciences, Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak
Khalid Sultan Mass Communication Department, College of Applied Sciences, OMAN.

Keywords: Fear, War Hazards, Students’ Health, Academic Achievement

Abstract

Fear badly affects the brain architecture of memory and learning; students who confront fatal and chronic fearful experiences often lose their learning capacities due to which they either show poor academic and low learning performance or failing grades (Arnsten, 2009). The study was descriptive in nature. All 10th class students in North Waziristan were the population of the study. The total numbers of sampled respondents were 403 i.e. 202 (50.12%) male and 201 (49.88%) female. The study was delimited to 10th class students only. Stratified random sampling technique was used. The main objective of the study was to identify the relationship between fear and students’ academic achievement at Secondary School level due to war hazards in North Waziristan. Findings of the study revealed that war hazards badly influenced students; the psycho traumatic problem (Fear) caused by war hazards fully traumatized students in North Waziristan Agency due to which they were mentally disturbed and showed poor academic scores. Finally, it was concluded that fear badly influenced 10th class students due to which they showed poor academic performance.