Study of mathematics anxiety in high school students and it's relationship with self-esteem and teachers' personality characteristics

The present research attempts to study the relationship between the mathematical anxiety among high school students and their self-esteem and teachers' personality characteristics. From among the high school students some 480 people were chosen categorically in accordance with their characteristics and 60 mathematics teachers were also chosen through this method. The data were collected through the use of self-esteem questionnaire of Cooper Smith and Mathematics Anxiety Questionnaire and personality questionnaire by Neo. After data analysis, the following findings were concluded: There is negative significant relationship between the students, mathematical anxiety and their self-esteem. There is also a significant relationship between the students, mathematical anxiety and their teacher's personality characteristics. There is not significant relationship between the high school students mathematics anxiety and their educational levels. There is a significant difference between the mathematical anxiety of moreover students majoring in humanities and natural science students and the students of physics and mathematics students. There is a significant difference between the mathematics anxiety of male and female students