"I think I can, but I'm afraid to try": The role of self-efficacy beliefs and mathematics anxiety in mathematics problem-solving efficiency

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 276-283

  Hoffman, Bobby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematics anxiety; Problem solving efficiency; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952740799     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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