Students of social sciences often hate statistics and therefore cannot utilize statistics
optimally. As only a few studies are available on the antecedents of the attitude towards
statistics, the authors investigated five possible antecedents in a hypothetical model. The
sample for this study was 255 psychology students across Greater Jakarta, Indonesia (52
males, 203 females; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 20.309 years old, <i>SD</i><sub>age</sub> = 1.182 years). Using path analysis, it
was found that mathematics self-efficacy and appreciation towards history of mathematics
can predict statistics appropriation, while ambiguity tolerance can predict previous bad
mathematics experience. Finally, both statistics appropriation and previous bad mathematics
experience can predict attitude towards statistics, thus confirming the hypothesized
model. The overall psychological model had a good fit (<i>x</i><sup>2</sup> (7, <i>N</i> = 255) = 7.72,
<i>p</i> > 0.05)
