The correlation between teacher's personality and level of student's anxiety

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Published: Dec 30, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/ijire.v7i2.5469

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Fetemeh Farahmand Rad
Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Atefeh Ferdosipour
Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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School is one of the most important social-educational institutions and the main pillar of formal education. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between teachers’ personality and anxiety level of female students in Isar Elementary School, District 12, Tehran. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The population of this study included all-female teachers (N = 6) and all-female students (N = 180). Tehran during 2018–2019. 60 students answered the Spence Children Anxiety Scale and all teachers answered the Neo personality inventory through a simple random sampling method.  Spss16 software was used for data analysis. The correlation test results indicated a correlation between teachers’ personality traits and students' anxiety, personality traits can predict anxiety. Furthermore, there was a significant inverse relationship between student agreeableness and anxiety. The paper concluded that as the level of conscientiousness increases, the students’ anxiety decreases.


Keywords: Personality traits, anxiety, teachers, female students, correlation.

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Rad, F. F., & Ferdosipour, A. (2020). The correlation between teacher’s personality and level of student’s anxiety. International Journal of Innovative Research in Education, 7(2), 64–70. https://doi.org/10.18844/ijire.v7i2.5469
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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020): December
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Short Articles
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