The mediating role of academic self-efficacy in the relationship between personality traits and mathematics performance

Abstract

Conception of individual differences in learning mathematics is an important issue in educational psychology. The present research investigated the mediating role of academic self-efficacy in the relationship between the personality traits and mathematics performance. Participants were 367(girls,187 and boys,180 ) selected from pre-university in Shiraz. They completed the Goldberg's Personality traits Scale (1999) and & Greene et al.' Academic Self-efficacy Scale ( 2004 ) and their mathematics' score was used as a criterion of mathematics performance. The path diagram of hypothetical model was tested by simultaneous regression analysis. Results showed that the significant relationship between variables of research and also the mediating role of academic self-efficacy. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.