Mathematics anxiety in statistics undergraduates

Abstract

In this paper we study the level of mathematics anxiety that students in the first grade of Statistics degrees experience. We analize the relation between this construct and other factors such as gender, degrees profile (Bussines, Mathematics or General) and the mathematics subject studied in the previous year. The results show that female students have more mathematics anxiety than male students in groups determinated by the two already mention factors, which show a higher level of anxiety. This groups belong to the Bussines profile and to students who studied the previous year the subject "Mathematics for Social Sciences".