The Relationship Between Statistics Anxiety and Its Dimensions with Task Value, Self- Efficacy and Processing Levels in Psychology Students

The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between statistics anxiety and its dimensions with task value, self-efficacy and processing levels in psychology students of Qazvin province. The sample consisted of 350 psychology students of Qazvin province who were selected by multi stage cluster sampling, and all these students responded to Statistics Anxiety Inventory of Morgan, Learning Experience Scale of Hanze and Berger, and Motivation and Engagement Scale of Martin. The present research method was descriptive-correlation. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and canonical correlation methods. The results indicated that there were significant relationships between all of statistics anxiety dimensions (except for statistics anxiety and mathematics, statistics anxiety and task value) with all of statistics anxiety consequences (processing level, self-efficacy, and task value). Also, the results of canonical correlation analysis showed that, from the three of canonical roots, all of roots were significant. The canonical correlation coefficient between criterion and predictor variables for the first of dimension was 0/43 that it showed that 22% of the variance of criterion variables (processing level, self-efficacy, and task value) explained by predictors variables (statistics anxiety, fear of class, mathematics anxiety, and performance). In the end, suggestions were presented.