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    The study examined the relationship between mathematics anxiety, mathematics performance, and academic hardiness in 284 high school students in Karnataka, India. It found that mathematics anxiety had a significant negative correlation with mathematics performance but no correlation with academic hardiness. Females reported slightly higher mathematics anxiety than males, but there were no significant gender differences in mathematics performance or academic hardiness. Reducing mathematics anxiety through teaching methods and psychological intervention can improve mathematics scores and academic performance.

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    The study examined the relationship between mathematics anxiety, mathematics performance, and academic hardiness in 284 high school students in Karnataka, India. It found that mathematics anxiety had a significant negative correlation with mathematics performance but no correlation with academic hardiness. Females reported slightly higher mathematics anxiety than males, but there were no significant gender differences in mathematics performance or academic hardiness. Reducing mathematics anxiety through teaching methods and psychological intervention can improve mathematics scores and academic performance.

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    The study examined the relationship between mathematics anxiety, mathematics performance, and academic hardiness in 284 high school students in Karnataka, India. It found that mathematics anxiety had a significant negative correlation with mathematics performance but no correlation with academic hardiness. Females reported slightly higher mathematics anxiety than males, but there were no significant gender differences in mathematics performance or academic hardiness. Reducing mathematics anxiety through teaching methods and psychological intervention can improve mathematics scores and academic performance.

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    CONCEPT PAPER IN Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Performance and Academic Hardiness in High School Students

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    Anxiety 

    is an emotion characterized by feelings of tension, worried thoughts and

    physical changes like increased blood pressure. People with anxiety disorders usually

    have recurring intrusive thoughts or concerns.  Math anxiety is a

    feeling of tension, apprehension or fear about one’s ability to do math, which 

    Subsequently interferes with performance.

    The study entitled “Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Performance and

    Academic Hardiness in High School Students” by Ayatollah Karimi and S.

    Venkatesan of the Department of Studies in Psychology University of Mysore,

    Manasagangothri, Mysore 570 006, Karnataka, India is to examine the relationship

    between levels of mathematics anxiety, mathematics performance and academic

    hardiness among high school students in Karnataka. and the effects of gender on

    students’ levels of mathematics anxiety, mathematics performance and academic

    hardiness.

    The participants of this study comprise 284 students of 8 grade including 144

    males and 140 females, selected randomly from 9 different high schools in Karnataka

    state (Mysore and Bangalore).

    The results have revealed that mathematics anxiety has significant negative

    correlation with mathematics performance but no significant correlation is detected with

    academic hardiness. It is also found that the gender differences in mathematics anxiety

    are significant, whereas no significant differences are detected between boys and girls

    in mathematics performance and academic hardiness. This study has established the

    fact that the performance of students in mathematics can be perceived by mathematics


    anxiety and females scored slightly higher on this variable but this relation has not

    observed with academic hardiness.

    The performance of students in mathematics can be influenced by mathematics

    anxiety. Reducing of this kind of anxiety leads to improvement in mathematics scores

    and academic performance. Mathematics anxiety can be reduced by using some

    special methods in teaching and psychological intervention, which is applicable in the

    pedagogical domains and the improvement curriculum practices. Academic hardiness

    and mathematics performance of the students with hardy attitudes will be more

    motivated to learn class material and more strongly committed to their classes than

    those reporting not having hardy attitudes. It can be a useful factor in increasing the

    quality of learning.

    Disturbance in any aspect affects individual’s performance. Some students

    experienced this kind of anxiety and they seemed to be underachievers in Math but with

    proper intervention low performance will be uplift.

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