PhD Scientific Days 2018

Poster presentations: Mental Sciences

Prevalence of mathematical anxiety

Előadó neve

Svraka, Bernadett, MSc

Előadó munkahelye

Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education

Előadó telefonszáma

+36209848249

Előadó e-mail címe

bettisvraka@gmail.com

Az előadás címe

Prevalence of mathematical anxiety

Szerző(k) neve és munkahelye

Svraka Tamásné - Eötvös Loránd University - Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education
Dr. Szilvia Ádám - Semmelweis University - Institute of Behavioural Sciences

Bemutatás módja

Poszter

Szekció

Poster presentations: Mental Sciences

Language of the presentation

Hungarian

Témacsoport

mental health sciences

Összefoglaló szövege

Background and Aims: The prevalence of mathematical anxiety is high among primary school students. Mathematical anxiety has widely been associated with performance, namely that the higher the level of anxiety is, the weaker the mathematical performance becomes. This may result in different symptoms and consequences in different cases. The purpose of our research was to explore the prevalence of mathematical anxiety and to evaluate the relationship between anxiety and performance among Hungarian students.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey with self-administered questionnaires among 200 secondary school students of the sixth grade. Anxiety was measured by the Mathematical Anxiety Measuring Test, whose main domains are emotional physiological symptoms and cognitive symptoms such as attitudes, attributes, and beliefs. Associations were assessed by descriptive correlation analysis.
Results: The prevalence of mathematical anxiety among Hungarian students was 17.95%. We identified a clear significant negative association between performance and all variables of anxiety. Performance had the strongest association with attitudes, and the weakest with attributes, both a variable of cognitive symptoms. Girls were more anxious when solving a math problem. We identified a significant, a fairly strong, negative relationship between performance and every domain of anxiety. There was a clear, significant, intermediate-strength, negative relationship between performance and all the domains and variables of anxiety among children diagnosed with difficulty of learning mathematics. In this group of subjects, the correlation coefficient was significantly higher than that among the full sample.
Conclusions: Anxiety and mathematical performance are close correlates, which was more pronounced among girls. Poorer performance may lead to higher anxiety. However, further studies are needed to confirm our results and to explore the consequences of mathematical anxiety.

Data of the presenter

Doctoral School: Mental Health Sciences
Program: Mental Health Sciences - Prevalence of mathematical anxiety
Supervisor: Szilvia Ádám
E-mail address of the supervisor: adamszilva@hotmail.com
E-mail address of the presenter : bettisvraka@gmail.com

Kind

Szabad

Status

elfogadva

Accepted presentation method

poszter

Előadás fájl jóváhagyás

nem rendelkezett róla

Előadó

2909

Presentation file URL

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Authors (legacy)

Svraka Tamásné - Eötvös Loránd University - Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education
Dr. Szilvia Ádám - Semmelweis University - Institute of Behavioural Sciences