Phobias and Gender - A Case Study on Engineering Students

Authors

  • Sankara Pitchaiah Podila  Psychologist and Professor of Geology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Nazia Sultana  Research Scholar, Department of Geology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India

DOI:

https://doi.org//10.32628/IJSRST196242

Keywords:

Specific Phobias, Therapies, Engineering Students, Gender

Abstract

Fears and phobias are common in the student community. The present study was observed some of the specific phobias- Exam phobia, Acrophobia, Hemophobia, Achluophobia, Hodophobia, Zoophobia and Oneirophobia in engineering students with reference to gender. A total of 460 students studying in four Engineering colleges, located in Guntur and Prakasam districts was selected, out of which 294 are male and 166 are female. The study found that all the examined phobias were high in female students, particularly, Exam (50.60%) and Zoophobia (39.16%) are very high in female and compared to male (42.52% and 13.27%).

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2019-03-30

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Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April-2019

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Sankara Pitchaiah Podila, Nazia Sultana, " Phobias and Gender - A Case Study on Engineering Students, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 6, Issue 2, pp.218-222, March-April-2019. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRST196242