Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals

This study aimed to investigate whether the ordinal judgments of high math anxious (HMA) and low math-anxious (LMA) individuals differ. Two groups of 20 participants with extreme scores on the Shortened Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (sMARS) had to decide whether a triplet of numbers was presented...

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Autores: Colomé, Àngels, Núñez Peña, María Isabel
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Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Aptitud per a la matemàtica
Alfabetisme matemàtic
Estrès (Psicologia)
Ansietat
Cognició
Mathematical ability
Numeracy
Stress (Psychology)
Anxiety
Cognition
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spelling Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individualsColomé, ÀngelsNúñez Peña, María IsabelAptitud per a la matemàticaAlfabetisme matemàticEstrès (Psicologia)AnsietatCognicióMathematical abilityNumeracyStress (Psychology)AnxietyCognitionThis study aimed to investigate whether the ordinal judgments of high math anxious (HMA) and low math-anxious (LMA) individuals differ. Two groups of 20 participants with extreme scores on the Shortened Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (sMARS) had to decide whether a triplet of numbers was presented in ascending order. Triplets could contain one-digit or two-digit numbers and be formed by consecutive numbers (counting condition), numbers with a constant distance of two or three (balanced) or numbers with variable distances between them (neutral). All these triplets were also presented unordered: sequence order in these trials could be broken at the second (D2) or third (D3) number. A reverse distance effect (worse performance for ordered balanced than for counting trials) of equal size was found in both anxiety groups. However, HMA participants made more judgment errors than their LMA peers when they judged one-digit counting ordered triplets. This effect was related to worse performance of HMA individuals on a symmetry span test and might be related to group differences on working memory. Importantly, HMAs were less accurate than LMA participants at rejecting unordered D2 sequences. This result is interpreted in terms of worse cognitive flexibility in HMA individuals.Frontiers Media2022202220212022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion12 p.application/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/184292Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.566614Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, vol. 12, p. 566614https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.566614cc-by (c) Colomé, Àngels et al., 2021https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/1842922026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals
title Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals
spellingShingle Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals
Colomé, Àngels
Aptitud per a la matemàtica
Alfabetisme matemàtic
Estrès (Psicologia)
Ansietat
Cognició
Mathematical ability
Numeracy
Stress (Psychology)
Anxiety
Cognition
title_short Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals
title_full Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals
title_fullStr Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals
title_full_unstemmed Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals
title_sort Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Colomé, Àngels
Núñez Peña, María Isabel
author Colomé, Àngels
author_facet Colomé, Àngels
Núñez Peña, María Isabel
author_role author
author2 Núñez Peña, María Isabel
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Aptitud per a la matemàtica
Alfabetisme matemàtic
Estrès (Psicologia)
Ansietat
Cognició
Mathematical ability
Numeracy
Stress (Psychology)
Anxiety
Cognition
topic Aptitud per a la matemàtica
Alfabetisme matemàtic
Estrès (Psicologia)
Ansietat
Cognició
Mathematical ability
Numeracy
Stress (Psychology)
Anxiety
Cognition
description This study aimed to investigate whether the ordinal judgments of high math anxious (HMA) and low math-anxious (LMA) individuals differ. Two groups of 20 participants with extreme scores on the Shortened Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (sMARS) had to decide whether a triplet of numbers was presented in ascending order. Triplets could contain one-digit or two-digit numbers and be formed by consecutive numbers (counting condition), numbers with a constant distance of two or three (balanced) or numbers with variable distances between them (neutral). All these triplets were also presented unordered: sequence order in these trials could be broken at the second (D2) or third (D3) number. A reverse distance effect (worse performance for ordered balanced than for counting trials) of equal size was found in both anxiety groups. However, HMA participants made more judgment errors than their LMA peers when they judged one-digit counting ordered triplets. This effect was related to worse performance of HMA individuals on a symmetry span test and might be related to group differences on working memory. Importantly, HMAs were less accurate than LMA participants at rejecting unordered D2 sequences. This result is interpreted in terms of worse cognitive flexibility in HMA individuals.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, vol. 12, p. 566614
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.566614
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