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First-year students’ math anxiety predicts STEM avoidance and underperformance throughout university, independently of math ability [PDF]

open access: goldnpj Science of Learning, 2021
Math anxiety is widely considered a potential barrier to success in STEM. Current thinking holds that math anxiety is directly linked to avoidance of and underperformance in STEM domains.
Richard J. Daker   +4 more
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Evaluation of math anxiety and its remediation through a digital training program in mathematics for first and second graders [PDF]

open access: greenBrain and Behavior, 2022
Introduction Math anxiety severely impacts individuals’ learning and future success. However, limited is understood about the profile in East Asian cultures where students genuinely show high‐level math anxiety, despite that they outperform their Western
Chan‐Tat Ng   +3 more
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Unraveling the role of math anxiety in students’ math performance [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Math anxiety (MA; i.e., feelings of anxiety experienced when being confronted with mathematics) can have negative implications on the mental health and well-being of individuals and is moderately negatively correlated with math achievement. Nevertheless,
Febe Demedts   +5 more
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Math anxiety in second and third graders and its relation to mathematics achievement [PDF]

open access: goldFrontiers in Psychology, 2012
Although the detrimental effects of math anxiety in adults are well understood, few studies have examined how it affects younger children who are beginning to learn math in a formal academic setting. Here, we examine the relationship between math anxiety
Sarah eWu   +4 more
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The mediating effect of math self-efficacy on the relationship between parenting style and math anxiety [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
The present study aims to investigate the associations among math self-efficacy, parenting style, and math anxiety in primary school children. The sample comprised 400 participants, aged between 10 and 11 years old, from an elementary school in China ...
Chao Wang   +3 more
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When math hurts: math anxiety predicts pain network activation in anticipation of doing math. [PDF]

open access: goldPLoS ONE, 2012
Math can be difficult, and for those with high levels of mathematics-anxiety (HMAs), math is associated with tension, apprehension, and fear. But what underlies the feelings of dread effected by math anxiety?
Ian M Lyons, Sian L Beilock
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Math Anxiety Mediates the Link Between Number Sense and Math Achievements in High Math Anxiety Young Adults [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
In the past few years, many studies have suggested that subjects with high sensory precision in the processing of non-symbolic numerical quantities (approximate number system; ANS) also have higher math abilities.
Paula Andrea Maldonado Moscoso   +3 more
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Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Mediates the Relation Between “Specific Math Anxiety” and Arithmetic Speed [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
There is a growing consensus that math anxiety highly correlates with trait anxiety and that the emotional component elicited by math anxiety affects math performance. Yet few studies have examined the impact of “specific math anxiety” (high math anxiety
Jiuqing Tang   +7 more
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The Arabic version of the modified-abbreviated math anxiety scale: Psychometric properties, gender differences, and associations with different forms of anxiety and math achievement [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
BackgroundThis study examined the psychometric properties (factor structure, measurement invariance, convergent and criterion validity, inter-correlations, and reliabilities) of an Arabic version of the modified-Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (m-AMAS ...
Ahmed M. Megreya   +2 more
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The impacts of math anxiety, science anxiety, and gender on arts versus sciences choices in Qatari secondary schools [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2023
Previous studies showed small-to-moderate associations between students’ performances in math and science and math anxiety and science anxiety, respectively.
Ahmed M. Megreya, Ahmed A. Al-Emadi
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