Author : Huihua He
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780549025108
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (251 download)
Book Synopsis Adolescents' Perception of Parental and Peer Mathematics Anxiety and Attitude Toward Mathematics: A Comparative Study of European-American and Mainland-Chinese Students by : Huihua He
Download or read book Adolescents' Perception of Parental and Peer Mathematics Anxiety and Attitude Toward Mathematics: A Comparative Study of European-American and Mainland-Chinese Students written by Huihua He and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary purpose of this study was to examine the similarities and differences in adolescents' perception of their parents', peers' and their own mathematics anxiety and attitudes toward mathematics between European-American and Mainland-Chinese groups. The second goal of this study was to examine whether adolescents' perception of their parents', peers' and their own mathematics anxiety and attitudes toward mathematics predict their perceptions of mathematics achievement in both European-American and Mainland-Chinese groups. The samples of this study were 80 Mainland-Chinese and 54 European-American adolescents. Students were evaluated with the Math anxiety Rating-Scale-Revised (MARS-R) and The Attitudes toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI). European-American adolescents (M = 37.463, SEM = 1.145) view their peers as more anxious than Mainland-Chinese adolescents (M = 33.381, SEM = .945). Mainland-Chinese adolescents (M = 37.518, SEM = .697) view their peers as holding more positive attitudes toward mathematics than European-American adolescents (M = 30.944, SEM = .844). European-American adolescents' perceptions of parental and peers' math anxiety predicted their perceptions of own math anxiety ( F (2, 51) = 9.545, p