Math anxiety and its relationship to inhibitory abilities and perceived emotional intelligence
Math anxiety has been found to be an emotional problem that has a negative effect on students’ academic performance across different levels of education. This type of anxiety could be related to certain cogni-tive and emotional processes. A first objective was to examine the relation-ship between ma...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Jaén |
| Repositorio: | RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaén |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ruja.ujaen.es:10953/7271 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.um.es/analesps/article/view/analesps.32.1.194891 https://hdl.handle.net/10953/7271 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Math anxiety inhibition intrusive thoughts perceived emotional intelligence. Q3 |
| Sumario: | Math anxiety has been found to be an emotional problem that has a negative effect on students’ academic performance across different levels of education. This type of anxiety could be related to certain cogni-tive and emotional processes. A first objective was to examine the relation-ship between math anxiety and certain inhibitory abilities responsible of eliminating intrusive thoughts or preventing them access to consciousness. A second aim was to determine the extent in which math anxiety and stu-dents’ self-perceptions of their own emotional abilities are related. To this end, 187 first-year undergraduate psychology students were administered different measures to assess math anxiety, statistics anxiety, inhibitory abili-ties, and perceived emotional intelligence. The results showed that students with high math anxiety were more likely to experience intrusive thoughts, were less effective at suppressing these thoughts, and reported lower scores in understanding and regulating their emotions. These cognitive mecha-nisms and emotional abilities are of relevance to better understand the na-ture of this type of anxiety. |
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