Investigating the relationship between personality traits, fear of negative evaluation, and perceived stress with math anxiety of female students.

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits, fear of negative evaluation and perceived stress in predicting mathematical anxiety. The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this study consisted of all grade one students of secondary school in the 2020 academic year (N=17,613). 375 people were selected as a statistical sample based on Cochran's formula and using a random cluster method and responded tothe perceived stress questionnaires of Bauer et al., big-five personality traits of McRee and Costa, Plake and Parker mathematical anxiety, and Leary fear of negative evaluation. Pearson correlation and multivariate regression tests were used to analyze the data. The results of the diagram show the fact that there is a significant relationship between personality traits, fear of negative evaluation and perceived stress with mathematical anxiety (p <0.05). Multivariate regression showed that neurosis and perceived stress were positively significant and flexibility was negatively significant, and they were the highest predictors of mathematical anxiety in this study. According to the obtained result, it is suggested to pay attention to psychological factors to reduce mathematical anxiety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]