@article{article_306387, title={Investigation of the Self-efficacy Perceptions of Middle School Students towards Mathematics: Anxiety and Attitude Factors}, journal={Adıyaman University Journal of Educational Sciences}, volume={6}, pages={283–302}, year={2016}, DOI={10.17984/adyuebd.306387}, author={Doruk, Muhammet and Öztürk, Mesut and Kaplan, Abdullah}, keywords={Ortaokul öğrencileri,matematik kaygısı,matematiğe yönelik tutum,matematiğe karşı öz-yeterlik algısı.}, abstract={<p style="text-align: justify; "> <span style="font-size: 12px;">This study aims to analyze the anxiety, attitude and self-efficacy  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">perceptions of middle school students towards mathematics and to reveal  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">the relations between these three affective variables. This correlational  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">study is carried out with 246 students studying at a state middle school in  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Turkey. Mathematics Anxiety Scale, Mathematics Self-Efficacy Perception  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Scale and Mathematics Attitude Scale were used as data collection tools.  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Descriptive and inferential statistics were executed to the obtained data.  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The results show low mathematical anxiety, but a high level of attitude and  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">self-efficacy perception of students towards mathematics. Relations  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">between anxiety, attitude and self-efficacy perceptions of students towards  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">mathematics are found to be statistically significant. These relations are  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">negative between mathematical anxiety and attitude towards mathematics  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">and self-efficacy perception; while the relation between attitude towards  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">mathematics and self-efficacy perception regarding mathematics is  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">positive. Moreover, it is found out that a major part of the change in selfefficacy  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">perception of students towards mathematics (47%) can be  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">explained by mathematical anxiety and attitude of students towards  </span> <span style="font-size: 12px;">mathematics. </span> </p>}, number={2}, publisher={Adıyaman Üniversitesi}