The paper has shown the relationship between Mathematics anxiety, Mathematics performance and Academic hardiness in high school students. The sample comprised 284 (144 males and 140 females) 10 th grade high school students from Karnataka state. Pearson correlation analysis and two independent samples T-test are used to analyze the data. The results have revealed that mathematics anxiety has significant negative correlation with mathematics performance but no significant correlation is detected with academic hardiness. It is also found that the gender differences in mathematics anxiety are significant, whereas no significant differences are detected between boys and girls in mathematics performance and academic hardiness. This study has established the fact that the performance of students in mathematics can be perceived by mathematics anxiety and females scored slightly higher on this variable but this relation has not observed with academic hardiness.

This paper examined the relationship between Mathematics anxiety, Mathematics performances and overall academic performance in high school students. 424 (111 males and 113 females) of high school students from three states in South India, responded to a Mathematics Anxiety Scale and Socio Demographic Questionnaire. The effects of gender on Mathematics anxiety, Mathematics performance and overall academic performance were examined and after data collection Pearson Correlation Analysis and two Independent Sample T test were used to analyze the data. Consequences reveal that Mathematics Anxiety significantly has negative correlation with Mathematics performances and overall academic performance. Moreover it was found that there is significant gender difference in Mathematics anxiety, whereas there is no significant difference between boys and girls in Mathematics performances and academic performance.

The aim of the present study is to find out the influence of rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) on pain intensity among cancer patients in India and Iran. The study followed a quasi-experimental, pre-post test, carried out with a sample of 88 cancer patients, aged 21-52 years, referred to the Baharat cancer hospital of Mysore in India and Shahidzade hospital of Behbahan in Iran. They were randomly assigned to the experimental (n=India 21; Iran 22) and control (n=India 22; Iran 23) groups. Pain was measured with the McGill Pain Questionnaire-MPQ (1975), the intervention by REBT has given to the experimental group for 45 days (ten sessions) and at the end of intervention, the pain of patients was again evaluated. Concerning to hypothesis of the study, two independent sample T test and three ways mixed ANOVA is used to analyze the data. Results showed that the experimental group in post test had less pain than the control group, but there were no statistically significant differences between Indian and Iranian patients in pain perception. With respect the outcome of study, it has realized that REBT can be used in hospitals and other psychological clinics to reduce the pain of cancer patients.

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