Statistics and Mathematics Anxiety in Social Science Students: Some Interesting Parallels  

Oleh:

Zeidner, Moshe

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Journal of Educational Psychology vol. 61 no. 03 (Nov. 1991), page 319.
Topik: Statistics Anxiety; Mathematics Anxiety; Social Science Students; maths self-efficacy

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This study illuminates some interesting parallels between statistics anxiety and mathematics anxiety in social science students. Parallel to what is confirmed for mathematics anxiety, two factors were observed to underly statistic anxiety scores, namely, statistics test anxiety and content anxiety. The study revealed modest though significant correlation between student attributes and the two confirmed dimensions of statistics anxiety. Furthermore, parallel to the inverse correlation reported for mathematics anxiety and maths course performance, statistics anxiety correlated negatively with high school matriculation scores in maths as well as self perceptions of math abilities. These data lend support to the hypothesis that aversive prior experiences with mathematics, prior poor achievement in maths, and low sense of maths self-efficacy are meaningful antecedent correlates of statistics anxiety and thus lend some credence to the "deficit" interpretation of statistic anxiety.

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