Editorial: Mathematical and Statistics Anxiety: Educational, Social, Developmental and Cognitive Perspectives

Frontiers in Psychology

Kinga Morsanyi¹ 

关键词: anxiety specificity;    developmental change;    emotional factors;    gender differences;    mathematical anxiety;    mathematics performance;    measurement;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01083

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Mathematical anxiety (MA) is a feeling of apprehension and fear related to mathematics (e.g., Ashcraft, 2002). High levels of MA have serious implications for a person's life prospects, as they can lead to an avoidance of elective maths courses, which, in turn, affects people's career opportunities (e.g., Hembree, 1990). The societal importance of MA is also underlined by the fact that, according to the latest report of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, on average 30.6% of adolescents get very nervous when they have to do maths problems (OECD, 2015).

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