Mathematics Anxiety and Statistics Anxiety. Shared but Also Unshared Components and Antagonistic Contributions to Performance in Statistics

In many social science majors, e.g., psychology, students report high levels of statistics anxiety. However, these majors are often chosen by students who are less prone to mathematics and who might have experienced difficulties and unpleasant feelings in their mathematics courses at school. The pre...

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Main Authors: Manuela Paechter, Daniel Macher, Khatuna Martskvishvili, Sigrid Wimmer, Ilona Papousek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01196/full