2018_EJRNL_PP_BOBY_HO_HONG_1.pdf
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The link between mathematics anxiety and mathematical performance in young children remains inconclusive.
The present study examined the longitudinal associations between mathematics anxiety and
mathematical performance (calculation and story problem solving) in 246 Chinese children followed
from second to third grade. Multiple regression analyses showed that mathematics anxiety made independent
contributions to mathematical performance beyond non-verbal intelligence, working memory,
number skills, general and test anxieties. However, mathematics anxiety does not affect all children
and all kinds of mathematical performance equally. Mathematics anxiety has a more pronounced impact
on mathematical problems that require more processing resources, as opposed to simple arithmetic
problems and straightforward story problems and children who are higher in working memory are more
vulnerable to its deleterious impacts.