Implicitly measured math anxiety (attentional bias) in children is predicted by environmental factors, specifically mothers' numerical task anxiety and maternal pressure¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2 · i3 large
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i3 Mothers' numerical task anxiety explained 22.9% of the variance in children's congruency effect in single-digit trials (r= 0.47). → Daches Cohen L and Rubinsten O 2017

Evidence¶

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

q2 · i3 · associational · r2

Hierarchical regression predicting the implicit measure in the study of 27 mother-child pairs. The article reports mothers' numerical task anxiety "explained 22.9% of the variance [ F(1,25)= 7.43, p < 0.025] in the congruency effect in the single digit trials."

"higher levels of numerical task anxiety among mothers were related to a larger congruency effect in the single digit trials in the numerical dot-probe task ( r= 0.47, p < 0.01)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Affect Regulation — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Children's arithmetic skills are the strongest predictor of their explicitly measured math anxiety, with higher skills associated with lower anxiety — related
• Explicit and implicit measures of children's math anxiety are non-significantly correlated in this sample — 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 — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Higher levels of maternal help, press for intellectual development, and monitoring are associated with poorer children's arithmetic skills — related