Empirical study to measure anxiety toward mathematics on college students

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DESARROLLO PSICO-SOCIOEMOCIONAL DE LA EDAD: PSICOLOGÍA POSITIVA Y BIENESTAR EN LAS PERSONAS MAYORES
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Published: Oct 28, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2016.n2.v1.546
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mathematics anxiety difficulty learning high school

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Elena Moreno-García
Universidad Cristóbal Colón
Némesis Larracila Salazar
Universidad Cristóbal Colón. Campus Calasanz.

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The aim of this study is to measure the level of anxiety toward math among students from a high school located in the city of Veracruz, Mexico. It is an explanatory correlational analysis with a non-experimental cross-sectional study design that supports the questionnaire developed by Muñoz and Mato-Vázquez (2008) and employing the technique of factor analysis to measure five dimensions of anxiety: towards the evaluation, toward temporality, toward understanding problems, numerical operations and toward real-life situations. The instrument was applied to 123 students. The results indicate that of all dimensions evaluated, students feel more anxiety toward evaluation and application of mathematics in real life situations is the dimension that generates less anxiety.

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Moreno-García, E., & Larracila Salazar, N. (2016). Empirical study to measure anxiety toward mathematics on college students. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 1(2), 453–464. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2016.n2.v1.546
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016): PSICO-SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE AGE: POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND WELFARE IN THE ELDERLY
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Author Biographies

Elena Moreno-García, Universidad Cristóbal Colón

Profesora Investigadora y Directora de la UCC Business School

Universidad Cristóbal Colón.

 

Némesis Larracila Salazar, Universidad Cristóbal Colón. Campus Calasanz.

Second year doctoral student in Management Sciences at UCC Business School

Universidad Cristóbal Colón. Campus Calasanz.

 

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