Mathematics anxiety of senior high school students based on extrovert and introvert personality types

Abstract

Mathematics is viewed by some students as a difficult subject, resulting them to be anxious when they are dealing with mathematics learning. Therefore, what and how mathematics anxiety have become an interesting issue to be studied. This study aims to describe mathematics anxiety profiles of senior high school students based on types of personality, which are extrovert and introvert. The study used qualitative method with triangulation strategy for collecting data in the forms of questionnaire regards extrovert and introvert personality types, MAS (Mathematics Anxiety Scale) questionnaire and interview. The subject of research were students from the 11th grade of one of high schools in Bandung. The result showed that: (1) extrovert students assume that mathematics is difficult so that they feel worried and are lack of enthusiasm when they are in the classroom, which the highest anxiety is when they are dealing with examination and assignment provided by their teacher, resulted that they feel scared, nervous, dizzy, and get stomach-ache; (2) introvert students assume mathematics as a complicated but interesting subject in the sense of they feel worried in classroom but they are calm and ease in facing examination but when they are appointed by teacher, they feel scared and not confidence.