Changes in physiological arousal during an arithmetic task: profiles of elementary school students and their associations with mindset, task performance and math grade.

ABSTRACT: Task-related change in physiological arousal is suggested to reflect active involvement with the task. While studies often examine such task-related changes in arousal as averaged across the entire task, the present study focused on temporal changes in arousal during a task. More specifically, we investigated changes in elementary school students' physiological arousal during an arithmetic task and associations between these changes and students' mindset, performance on the task, and math grades. We used a person-oriented approach to analyze the tonic electrodermal activity of 86 fourth graders, recorded while they were working on an arithmetic task. With model-based clustering of students' on-task electrodermal activity, we identified three groups of students with differing temporal dynam

SUBMITTER: Puusepp I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10796377 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature