{"id":591,"date":"2024-04-29T01:20:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/?page_id=591"},"modified":"2024-04-29T01:20:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:20:42","slug":"factors-that-form-math-anxiety-and-self-concept-do-not-elicit-its-further-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/conference-schedule\/poster-presentations\/poster-presentations-session-3\/factors-that-form-math-anxiety-and-self-concept-do-not-elicit-its-further-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Factors that Form Math Anxiety and Self-Concept Do Not Elicit Its Further Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ivan Rodriguez, Meghan Long, Victoria Soliz, & Dr. Susan Beers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Past research has indicated that math self-concept (MSC) is a critical predictor of math anxiety and performance (Orth & Robbins, 2022).\u00a0 MSC appears to take form in childhood and adolescence and is the consequence of factors such as math achievement, peer comparison, confidence, math anxiety, and math avoidance. However, little is known about the stability of MSC after adolescence, nor about the factors that influence change from secondary school to adulthood. The purpose of this study was to determine if factors that are known to be involved in the formation of MSC are also responsible for its modification in adulthood. Sixty eight undergraduate students participated in an experiment in which they completed nine surveys that measured math anxiety, secondary school MSC, college MSC, math confidence, math achievement in secondary school and in college, peer comparison, math avoidance, and a math performance test (BMA-1, Steiner & Ashcraft, 2012). Change in MSC was computed by subtracting secondary school MSC from college MSC, producing a distribution ranging from -10 to 7 (M = .31, SD = 3.25).\u00a0 Middle school self-concept predicted college self-concept (r = .595) and both were correlated with changes in MSC ( r = -.588, r = .301, respectively). No other variables predicted change in MSC, but secondary school achievement and math anxiety were significantly associated with middle school self-concept, (r = .50, r = -.54, respectively). College self-concept was significantly associated with additional variables including confidence and math avoidance (r\u2019s = .39, -.44, respectively).\u00a0 These findings suggest that MSC formed during childhood changes for some people, but is generally resistant to change.\u00a0 As previously shown, math achievement and math anxiety are critical to MSC formation in adolescence, but those factors do not appear to influence change in MSC.\u00a0 Instead, math anxiety and secondary school achievement, joined by confidence and math avoidance, seem to maintain secondary school MSC into college MSC. Because poor MSC negatively influences many behaviors regarding math, it is critical to explore avenues that might break its effects. These results suggest confidence and math avoidance may be critical factors to target for that purpose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poster Presentation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Session 3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:45pm \u2013<\/strong> 4:00pm
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Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ivan Rodriguez, Meghan Long, Victoria Soliz, & Dr. Susan Beers Past research has indicated that math self-concept (MSC) is a critical predictor of math anxiety and performance (Orth & Robbins, 2022).\u00a0 MSC appears to take form in childhood and adolescence and is the consequence of factors such as math achievement, peer comparison, confidence, math anxiety, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-591","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-poster-presentations","category-session-3","tag-psychology","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591\/revisions\/638"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/src.cikeys.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}