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| Title |
Insecure attachment is associated with math anxiety in middle childhood
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01596 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Guy Bosmans, Bert De Smedt |
| Abstract |
Children's anxiety for situations requiring mathematical problem solving, a concept referred to as math anxiety, has a unique and detrimental impact on concurrent and long-term mathematics achievement and life success. Little is known about the factors that contribute to the emergence of math anxiety. The current study builds on the hypothesis that math anxiety might reflect a maladaptive affect regulation mechanism that is characteristic for insecure attachment relationships. To test this hypothesis, 87 children primary school children (M age = 10.34 years; SD age = 0.63) filled out questionnaires measuring insecure attachment and math anxiety. They all completed a timed and untimed standardized test of mathematics achievement. Our data revealed that individual differences in math anxiety were significantly related to insecure attachment, independent of age, sex, and IQ. Both tests of mathematics achievement were associated with insecure attachment and this effect was mediated by math anxiety. This study is the first to indicate that math anxiety might develop in the context of insecure parent-child attachment relationships. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 19 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Brazil | 1 | 5% |
| Finland | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |
| Ireland | 1 | 5% |
| Belgium | 1 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 12 | 63% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 79% |
| Scientists | 4 | 21% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 110 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 108 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 10 | 9% |
| Researcher | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 16 | 15% |
| Unknown | 29 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 54 | 49% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 13% |
| Mathematics | 5 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 3% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 31 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 June 2020.
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#2,501
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#18,024
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#47
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