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  • Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

Background:

  • Statistics anxiety is a significant issue for undergraduate students in social sciences, humanities, and psychology.
  • Understanding factors contributing to statistics anxiety is crucial for developing effective interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate factors influencing statistics anxiety in university students.
  • To determine if perfectionists are at a higher risk for statistics anxiety.
  • To characterize the aims and strivings of student subgroups concerning statistics.

Main Methods:

  • A sample of 210 university students completed questionnaires.
  • Measures included statistics anxiety, perfectionism, excellencism, academic goals, emotion regulation, attitude towards statistics, and statistical ability.

Main Results:

  • Distinguishing between striving for flawlessness and excellence was linked to lower statistics interpretation anxiety.
  • Excellencists favored mastery-oriented goals and adaptive emotion regulation.
  • Perfectionism-oriented profiles showed a positive correlation between statistics anxiety and avoidance goals.

Conclusions:

  • The ability to differentiate between flawlessness and excellence is key to maintaining a positive attitude in anxiety-provoking courses.
  • Perfectionism and excellencism have distinct relationships with academic goals and emotion regulation strategies in the context of statistics anxiety.