Motivation, anxiety, confidence, pleasure and usefulness factors that really explain the attitude towards Mathematics in students majoring in Economics?

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Published: Oct 22, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v2.875
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mathematics attitude anxiety utility liking motivation

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Carlos Alberto Rojas-Kramer
Universidad Cristóbal Colón
Milka Elena Escalera-Chávez
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
Elena Moreno-García
Universidad Cristóbal Colón
Arturo García-Santillán
Universidad Cristóbal Colón

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The study focuses on determining the level of attitude towards mathematics by students of the Faculty of Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi (UASLP), Mexico. The study is approached from the quantitative paradigm, not experimental, transversal and exploratory. The sample consisted of college students majoring in Economics who coursed mathematics during 2015. The attitude toward statistics test from Auzmendi (1992) was used. The main empirical finding of perception of students was that the pleasure is one of the factors that contribute to the attitude towards mathematics, contrary to motivation, which showed that it is not a key attitude to this discipline.

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Rojas-Kramer, C. A., Escalera-Chávez, M. E., Moreno-García, E., & García-Santillán, A. (2017). Motivation, anxiety, confidence, pleasure and usefulness factors that really explain the attitude towards Mathematics in students majoring in Economics?. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 2(1), 527–540. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v2.875
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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017): MONOGRAPH NO. 1. PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE FUTURE. ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY.
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Author Biographies

Carlos Alberto Rojas-Kramer, Universidad Cristóbal Colón

Profesor Investigador de la UCC Business School, Universidad Cristóbal Colón.

Milka Elena Escalera-Chávez, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

Profesora Investigadora de la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

Elena Moreno-García, Universidad Cristóbal Colón

Profesora Investigadora de la UCC Business School, Universidad Cristóbal Colón

Arturo García-Santillán, Universidad Cristóbal Colón

Profesor  Investigador de la Ucc Business School, Universidad Cristóbal Colón

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