Positive affect as an indicator of the academic attributions in Mathematics
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The aim of the current study was to analyse the differences in the scores of academic attributions in Mathematics (success and failure attributed to capacity, effort and external causes) of Spanish students of primary education according to high and low scores in positive affect. To fulfil this target, a sample of 862 students of primary education (8-11 years old) was recruited. To obtain the scores of the analysed variables, the positive affect subscale of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children (PANAS) and the Mathematics subscale of the Sydney Attribution Scale (SAS) were used. After performing the Levene’s test, the Student’s t-test was used to analyse the existence of statistically significant differences in the scores of academic attributions between students with high scores in positive affect and students with low scores. In this sense, it was proved that students with high marks in positive affect attributed more their failures and successes in Mathematics to external causes. On the contrary, students with low levels of positive affect attributed more their failures to the lack of capacity or effort. The presented results broad the knowledge of affect during childhood and possibility the future work in improving these aspects.
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