Study of mathematics anxiety in high school students and the relationship between mathematics anxiety with self esteem and teacher personality characteristics

The present research attempts to study the relationship between the mathematical anxiety among high school students and their self-steem 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-steem questionnaire by Cooper Smith and Mathematics Anxiety Questionnaire (Mars) and personality questionnaire by Neo.
After analyzing the data, the following findings were resulted Following results obtained: negative significant relationship between the students, mathematical anxiety and their self-steem(p0.01). There is also a significant relationship between the students, mathematical anxiety and their teacher's personality characteristics(p0.01). There is not significant relationship between the high school students mathematics anxiety and their educational levels(p0.01).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(p0.01). There is a significant difference between the mathematics anxiety of male and female students(p0.01).