Disentangling the individual and contextual effects of math anxiety: A global perspective.

ABSTRACT: Math anxiety is a common affective disorder in students that is characterized by intrusive thoughts that disrupt critical cognitive resources required for math problem-solving. Consistent associations between math anxiety and math achievement have been observed across countries and age groups, placing math anxiety among other important correlates of math achievement, such as socioeconomic status and magnitude representation ability. However, studies examining math anxiety's relation to achievement have largely focused on the effect of students' own math anxiety (individual effect), while little is known regarding the effect of math anxiety in students' educational context (contextual effect). Using three international studies of achievement (n = 1,175,515), we estimated both the individual

SUBMITTER: Lau NTT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8851526 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature