Becker M, Litkowski EC, Duncan RJ, Schmitt SA, Elicker J, Purpura DJ. Parents' math anxiety and mathematics performance of pre-kindergarten children.
J Exp Child Psychol 2021;
214:105302. [PMID:
34624707 DOI:
10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105302]
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Abstract
Prior research demonstrates that individuals' math anxiety may be negatively related to their mathematics performance. However, little research has examined how caregivers' math anxiety is associated with children's mathematics performance prior to kindergarten. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between parents' math anxiety and the change in children's mathematics performance during the preschool year. Participants were 310 preschool-age children (155 female; 4.12-5.78 years of age, M = 5.20 years, SD = 0.29). Structural equation modeling results demonstrated that parents' math anxiety was significantly negatively related to change in children's mathematics performance during the pre-kindergarten year when controlling for fall mathematics performance and demographics. Moreover, multigroup path analyses revealed that this association did not differ for male versus female children.
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