Math performance and academic anxiety forms, from sociodemographic to cognitive aspects: A meta-analysis on 906,311 participants

S Caviola, E Toffalini, D Giofrè, JM Ruiz… - Educational Psychology …, 2022 - Springer
The relationship between anxiety and mathematics has often been investigated in the
literature. Different forms of anxiety have been evaluated, with math anxiety (MA) and test …

The math anxiety-performance link: A global phenomenon

AE Foley, JB Herts, F Borgonovi… - Current directions in …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals is on
the rise worldwide. To effectively meet this demand, many governments and private …

The relation between mathematics anxiety and mathematics performance among school-aged students: A meta-analysis

JM Namkung, P Peng, X Lin - Review of Educational …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the relation between mathematics anxiety
(MA) and mathematics performance among school-aged students, and to identify potential …

State authenticity as fit to environment: The implications of social identity for fit, authenticity, and self-segregation

T Schmader, C Sedikides - Personality and Social …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
People seek out situations that “fit,” but the concept of fit is not well understood. We introduce
S tate A uthenticity as F it to the E nvironment (SAFE), a conceptual framework for …

The chicken or the egg? The direction of the relationship between mathematics anxiety and mathematics performance

E Carey, F Hill, A Devine, D Szücs - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
This review considers the two possible causal directions between mathematics anxiety (MA)
and poor mathematics performance. Either poor maths performance may elicit MA (referred …

Executive functions and self-regulation

W Hofmann, BJ Schmeichel, AD Baddeley - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2012 - cell.com
Self-regulation is a core aspect of adaptive human behavior that has been studied, largely in
parallel, through the lenses of social and personality psychology as well as cognitive …

Working memory and fluid intelligence: Capacity, attention control, and secondary memory retrieval

N Unsworth, K Fukuda, E Awh, EK Vogel - Cognitive psychology, 2014 - Elsevier
Several theories have been put forth to explain the relation between working memory (WM)
and gF. Unfortunately, no single factor has been shown to fully account for the relation …

Math anxiety, working memory, and math achievement in early elementary school

G Ramirez, EA Gunderson, SC Levine… - Journal of cognition …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Although math anxiety is associated with poor mathematical knowledge and low course
grades (Ashcraft & Krause,), research establishing a connection between math anxiety and …

Get excited: reappraising pre-performance anxiety as excitement.

AW Brooks - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Individuals often feel anxious in anticipation of tasks such as speaking in public or meeting
with a boss. I find that an overwhelming majority of people believe trying to calm down is the …

First-year students' math anxiety predicts STEM avoidance and underperformance throughout university, independently of math ability

RJ Daker, SU Gattas, HM Sokolowski, AE Green… - npj Science of …, 2021 - nature.com
Math anxiety is widely considered a potential barrier to success in STEM. Current thinking
holds that math anxiety is directly linked to avoidance of and underperformance in STEM …