Children's arithmetic skills are the strongest predictor of their explicitly measured math anxiety, with higher skills associated with lower anxiety¶
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q2 i3 Math fluency scores significantly explained 17.6% of the variance in children's explicitly measured math anxiety (AMAS), such that higher arithmetic skills were associated with lower math anxiety. → Daches Cohen L and Rubinsten O 2017
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Daches Cohen L and Rubinsten O 2017¶
Daches Cohen L and Rubinsten O (2017) Mothers, Intrinsic Math Motivation, Arithmetic Skills, and Math Anxiety in Elementary School. Front. Psychol. 8:1939. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01939
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Hierarchical regression in a correlational study of 27 sixth graders and their mothers, with math fluency entered first as predictor of AMAS scores. The article reports "math fluency scores significantly explained 17.6% of the variance" with F(1,25)= 5.34, p < 0.05. Math fluency also correlated with AMAS at r=−0.42.
"math fluency scores significantly explained 17.6% of the variance [F(1,25)= 5.34, p < 0.05], such that higher arithmetic skills were associated with lower math anxiety."
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Related Claims¶
- Intrinsic math motivation is positively correlated with arithmetic skills and negatively correlated with explicitly measured math anxiety in sixth graders — related
- Explicit and implicit measures of children's math anxiety are non-significantly correlated in this sample — related
- Implicitly measured math anxiety (attentional bias) in children is predicted by environmental factors, specifically mothers' numerical task anxiety and maternal pressure — related
- Preliminary evidence of intergenerational transmission of math anxiety: mothers' math anxiety relates to children's lower intrinsic math motivation and stronger attentional bias toward math stimuli — related
- Higher levels of maternal help, press for intellectual development, and monitoring are associated with poorer children's arithmetic skills — related
- Math anxiety's direct effect on math performance emerges in grade 4 but not grade 3, suggesting a developmental trajectory — related
- Math anxiety is not significantly correlated with trait anxiety in young children — related
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Children's arithmetic skills are the strongest predictor of their explicitly measured math anxiety, with higher skills associated with lower anxiety |
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Children's arithmetic skills are the strongest predictor of their explicitly measured math anxiety, with higher skills associated with lower anxiety |
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