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

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

This review considers the two possible causal directions between mathematics anxiety (MA) and poor mathematics performance. Either poor maths performance may elicit MA (referred to as the Deficit Theory), or MA may reduce future maths performance (referred to as the Debilitating Anxiety Model). The...

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Main Authors: Emma eCarey, Francesca eHill, Amy eDevine, Denes eSzucs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
working memory
educational psychology
Mathematics anxiety
mathematics performance
cognitive interference
deficit theory
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01987/full

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