Strategies for remediating the impact of math anxiety on high school math performance.

ABSTRACT: Students with math anxiety experience excessive levels of negative emotion, including intrusive and distracting thoughts, when attempting to learn about math or complete a math assignment. Consequently, math anxiety is associated with maladaptive study skills, such as avoidance of homework and test preparation, creating significant impediments for students to fulfill their potential in math classes. To combat the impact of math anxiety on academic performance, we introduced two classroom-based interventions across two samples of high school math students: one intervention focused on emotion regulation (ER) using cognitive reappraisal, a technique for reframing an anxious situation, and the other intervention encouraged students to improve their study habits. The Study Skills (SS) intervent

SUBMITTER: Pizzie RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10543627 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature