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The present study attempts to investigate the causal relationship between optimism, test anxiety and mathematical performance with the mediating role of dispositional and situational coping strategies in sophomore students of Basic Science at Kurdistan University in the academic year 2011-12. The statistical population of the study includes a total sum of 279 male and female students selected through multi-stage random sampling. Research instruments include the TAI Questionnaire, the LOT-R Test, and the pf-SOC Questionnaire, all of which had acceptable validity and reliability. A correlational method of path analysis type has been applied to the present study. The results show that in addition to having a direct effect on mathematical performance, optimism exerts an indirect effect on it through reflective as well as dispositional coping styles. Besides, the direct and indirect effects of test anxiety on mathematical performance through reactive situational coping style and suppressive coping style prove to be significant. Finally, in the reformed model, all path coefficients and model indices were significant and acceptable respectively and the reformed model proved to be appropriate.
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