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Simmons, FR, Soto-Calvo, E, Adams, A-M, Francis, HN, Patel, H and Hartley, C (2023) Longitudinal associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and young children’s mathematics attainment. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 238. ISSN 0022-0965
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Abstract
The associations between parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and children’s mathematics attainment in early primary school were explored. Initially, parents of preschool children (Mage = 3;11 [years;months]) completed a questionnaire indexing parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes and the frequency of preschool home number experiences. The children completed mathematics assessments in their first year (n = 231, Mage = 5;2) and second year (n = 119, Mage = 6;3) of schooling and a mathematics anxiety questionnaire in their third year of schooling (n = 119, Mage = 6;7). A questionnaire indexing the frequency of primary school home number experiences was completed by 119 of the parents in their children’s second year of schooling (Mage = 6;0). All indices of parental mathematics anxiety and attitudes predicted children’s mathematics attainment in their first school year. These associations were independent of parental mathematics attainment and were not mediated by the frequency of preschool home number experiences. Furthermore, the positive association between preschool home number experiences and children’s mathematics attainment was not weaker in the context of high parental mathematics anxiety or negative parental mathematics attitudes. One index of parental mathematics attitudes predicted children’s mathematics attainment in their second school year, but this association was not significant when prior attainment was controlled. There was a stronger association between maternal mathematics anxiety and girls’ attainment versus boys’ attainment. Parental mathematics anxiety did not predict children’s mathematics anxiety. The findings suggest that children whose parents have high mathematics anxiety or negative mathematics attitudes are more likely to have lower mathematics attainment in their first year of school. However, the mechanism underpinning this association is not yet established.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1701 Psychology; 1702 Cognitive Sciences; Experimental Psychology |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1139.2 Early childhood education |
| Divisions: | Psychology (from Sep 2019) |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2023 13:46 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2023 16:45 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/21562 |
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