Maths Anxiety Does Not Moderate The Link Between Spatial And Maths Ability

Likhanov, Maxim; Захаров, И. К.; Kuz’mina, Yu. L.; Budakova, Anna V.; Vasin, Georgy; Malykh, Sergey; Kovas, Yulia

doi:10.15405/epsbs.2017.12.21

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“…The task is to decide if a given 3D figure is identical or a mirror image of the displayed alternative answers. Casey et al, 1997;Delgado and Prieto, 2008;Hart et al, 2017;Likhanov et al, 2017;Lauer et al, 2018;Sokolowski et al, 2019 Corsi block backwards Participants reproduce a pattern of blocks in a quadrant in the reverse order.…”

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Working Memory and Its Mediating Role on the Relationship of Math Anxiety and Math Performance: A Meta-Analysis

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It is well established that math anxiety has a negative relationship with math performance (MP). A few theories have provided explanations for this relationship. One of them, the Attentional Control Theory (ACT), suggests that anxiety can negatively impact the attentional control system and increase one's attention to threat-related stimuli. Within the ACT framework, the math anxiety (MA)—working memory (WM) relationship is argued to be critical for math performance. The present meta-analyses provides insights into the mechanisms of the MA—MP relation and the mediating role of WM. Through database searches with pre-determined search strings, 1,346 unique articles were identified. After excluding non-relevant studies, data from 57 studies and 150 effect sizes were used for investigating the MA—MP correlation using a random-effects model. This resulted in a mean correlation of r = −0.168. The database search of WM as a mediator for the MA—MP relation revealed 15 effects sizes leading to a descriptive rather than a generalizable statistic, with a mean indirect effect size of −0.092. Overall, the results confirm the ACT theory, WM does play a significant role in the MA—MP relationship.

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Working Memory and Its Mediating Role on the Relationship of Math Anxiety and Math Performance: A Meta-Analysis

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“…Participants rated, on a 5-point Likert scale, how much anxiety they experienced in each particular situation. A 21-item Russian adaptation of sMARS was used, which has four items removed from the questionnaire based on their poor psychometric properties (see Likhanov et al, 2017). As in previous research (Ashcraft & Moore, 2009), the total score of all items (21 in this study) was used as a singular measure of math anxiety.…”

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The Role of Mathematical and Trait Anxiety in Mental Fatigue: an EEG Investigation

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Psych. Rus.

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Background. Mental fatigue is a state of tiredness, decreased motivation, and increased aversion to performing a task. Mental fatigue is associated with the length of engagement in an activity (time-on-task) and the degree of cognitive effort required. In addition, mental fatigue can be affected by personality characteristics, such as trait or domain-specific anxiety. There is a lack of research into associations between mental fatigue and trait anxiety, as well as specific types of anxiety such as math anxiety. Objective. This study investigates whether the level of mental fatigue manifested in an EEG taken during the performance of a mixed problem-solving task, is associated with math and trait anxiety. Design. An EEG recording was performed on participants in a resting state with their eyes closed in two runs, both before and after they performed a task. The task consisted of three types of stimuli: arithmetic, algebraic, and lexical. Results. The results showed that the EEG correlates of fatigue changed between the first and second runs. These changes were not linked with mathematics anxiety. Some significant EEG effects were found for trait anxiety: people with high trait anxiety appeared more aroused and showed less fatigue effects. However, these results did not reach the level of significance after correction for multiple comparisons. Conclusion. Overall, our results are in line with the motivational control theory, according to which mental fatigue "resets" when a person switches from one task to another. In our study, the experimental paradigm consisted of three types of tasks, a format which might have prevented fatigue. We discuss the implications of the study for further research into the links between anxiety and mental fatigue.

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“…Hart et al, 2017;Likhanov et al, 2017;Lauer et al, 2018;Sokolowski et al, 2019 Corsi block backwardsParticipants reproduce a pattern of blocks in a quadrant in the reverse order.Ashkenazi and Danan, 2017; Soltanlou et al, 2019 WM, working memory. Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org 5 January 2022 | Volume 12 | Article 798090 93 92…”

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Cognitive and Affective Factors in Relation to Learning

2022

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Maths Anxiety Does Not Moderate The Link Between Spatial And Maths Ability

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Working Memory and Its Mediating Role on the Relationship of Math Anxiety and Math Performance: A Meta-Analysis

Working Memory and Its Mediating Role on the Relationship of Math Anxiety and Math Performance: A Meta-Analysis

The Role of Mathematical and Trait Anxiety in Mental Fatigue: an EEG Investigation

Cognitive and Affective Factors in Relation to Learning

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