Number line estimation in highly math‐anxious individuals.
In this study, we aimed to investigate the difficulties highly math‐anxious individuals (HMA) may face when having to estimate a number's position in a number line task. Twenty‐four HMA and 24 low math‐anxiety (LMA) individuals were presented with four lines with endpoints 0–100, 0–1,000, 0–100,000,...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 110; no. 1; pp. 40 - 60 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=134201215&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 134201215 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00071269 BJP jtl: British Journal of Psychology issn: 00071269 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Feb2019 vid: 110 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 134201215 10.1111/bjop.12335 ppf: 40 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 255KB tig: atl: Number line estimation in highly math‐anxious individuals. aug: au: Núñez‐Peña, María Isabel Colomé, Àngels Aguilar‐Lleyda, David affil: Department of Social Psychology and Quantitative Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Spain Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Esplugues de Llobregat Spain Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain su: Anxiety Student attitudes Task performance Mathematics Mice (Computers) Regression analysis sug: subj: Anxiety Student attitudes Task performance Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing Mathematics Mice (Computers) Regression analysis keyword: anxiety–complexity effect magnitude representation Math anxiety number line task numerical estimation anxiety–complexity effect magnitude representation Math anxiety number line task numerical estimation ab: In this study, we aimed to investigate the difficulties highly math‐anxious individuals (HMA) may face when having to estimate a number's position in a number line task. Twenty‐four HMA and 24 low math‐anxiety (LMA) individuals were presented with four lines with endpoints 0–100, 0–1,000, 0–100,000, and 267–367 on a computer monitor on which they had to mark the correct position of target numbers using the mouse. Although no differences were found between groups in the frequency of their best‐fit model, which was linear for all lines, the analysis of slopes and intercepts for the linear model showed that the two groups differed in performance on the less familiar lines (267–367 and 0–100,000). Lower values for the slope and higher values for the intercept were found in the HMA group, suggesting that they tended to overestimate small numbers and underestimate large numbers on these non‐familiar lines. Percentage absolute error analyses confirmed that HMA individuals were less accurate than their LMA counterparts on these lines, although no group differences were found in response time. These results indicate that math anxiety is related to worse performance only in the less familiar and more difficult number line tasks. Therefore, our data challenge the idea that HMA individuals might have less precise numerical representations and support the anxiety–complexity effect posited by Ashcraft and colleagues. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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