Gender differences in mathematics anxiety and the relation to mathematics performance while controlling for test anxiety

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Devine, Amy ^a   Fawcett, Kayleigh ^a   Szucs, Dénes ^a   Dowker, Ann ^b  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STUDY SKILLS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TEST ANXIETY SCALE; TEST TAKING SKILLS;

EID: 84863511684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-8-33     Document Type: Article

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