Copyright@ INDIAN PSYCHOSOCIAL FOUNDATION||2011||Volume: 1||No: 1||Pages: 42-46|| Page | 42 A Study on Effect of Perceived Academic Achievement on the Level of Inferiority and Insecurity Feeling Manoranjan Tripathy M.A. (Psychology), Department of Psychology, Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar Uttarakhand-249404, India manoranjanonly@gmail.com Dr. S.K. Srivastava Professor, Department Psychology, Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar Uttarakhand-249404 profsrivastava@aol.com INDIAN JOUNAL OF PSYCHOSOCIAL SCIENCES (Official Publication of Indian Psychosocial Foundation) ||ISSN: 2231-3036|| ||October: 2011|| ||Vol: 1|| || No: 2|| ||Pages: 42-46|| ABSTRACT Academic achievement has been and continues to be one of the most important values held in highly arrives in all cultures, countries and times. Scholastic achievement has been therefore an important development task, which the pre-adolescents and the adolescents are expected to attain. Education, it is hoped, wideness the mind & trains the critical faculties of thought and judgment. Hence it has always been valued by all societies and cultures. In society today, academic performance plays an essential role in many peoples’ lives. The present study aims to examine the relationship between the academic achievement and inferiority & insecurity feeling. This research attempt to determine that academic achievement can effect on the level of inferiority & insecurity feeling in school going children. It is recognized by the result that the level of inferiority & insecurity feeling, both variables have been effected by the academic achievement. So we concentrate for this study. Hypothesis 1: There is no significant difference on the level of inferiority feeling among high academic achiever & low academic achiever persons. Hypothesis 2: There is no significant difference on the level of insecurity feeling among high academic achiever & low academic achiever persons. Method and procedure- For the study, sample size of 100 was selected through Quota sampling technique from the Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar, (Uttarakhand). Which was selected from two groups i.e. 50 from high academic achievement and 50 from low academic achievement and they were again devided into two subgroups of 25 males and 25 females. For measurement of ‘Inferiority & Insecurity feelings’ researcher used Inferiority & Insecurity Questionnaires. The inventor of this test is Dr. G.G. Pati; Mental Health Institution, SCB Medical College, Cuttack (Orissa). Result: High academic achiever persons have low inferiority feeling than low academic achiever persons. High academic achiever persons have low insecurity feeling than low academic achiever persons. Conclusion: The results indicated that there was no significant relationship between feeling of security- insecurity and academic achievement. Keywords: Perceived academic achievement and inferiority & insecurity feeling.