Mathematics anxiety among eighth-grade students of the United Arab Emirates

Psychological Reports

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-66

  Abed, Adnan S ^b   Alkhateeb, Haitham M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; STUDENTS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 0035433709     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.89.1.65     Document Type: Article

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