Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of Risk Factors for Mathematical Anxiety in Tertiary Students
Mathematics anxiety or mathematics phobia is a general term for several disorders that will cause panic attacks, nervousness, and social anxiety, which potentially gave negative outcomes when faced with any situation related to mathematical problems. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examin...
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| author | Md Yusof, Zahayu Mohd Zanuddin, Nur Hazwani Abdul Karim, Basharoh Zakaria, Fazlinawati Mohammad Noor, Nurfaizura Fazana Kamarudin, Norehan Misiran, Masnita |
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| description | Mathematics anxiety or mathematics phobia is a general term for several disorders that will cause panic attacks, nervousness, and social anxiety, which potentially gave negative outcomes when faced with any situation related to mathematical problems. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence mathematics anxiety among private college students. Two private colleges from north Malaysia were selected from its nine branches all over Malaysia. These colleges offered 9 different courses where each course offered mathematics subject. After conducting factor analysis, five factors were identified as reasons for the occurrence of mathematics anxiety among students. The factors are student attitude, role of teacher, skills, emotions, and peers. Structural equation model has shown that there are relationships between these five factors. Peers and role of teachers proven to have a positive direct effect on mathematics anxiety with role of teachers was found to be the strongest factor. Meanwhile, students’ attitude and skills have a negative direct effect on mathematics anxiety. Finally, emotions influence mathematics anxiety indirectly through students’ attitude |
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| spelling | uum-308592024-06-23T04:56:49Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/30859/ Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of Risk Factors for Mathematical Anxiety in Tertiary Students Md Yusof, Zahayu Mohd Zanuddin, Nur Hazwani Abdul Karim, Basharoh Zakaria, Fazlinawati Mohammad Noor, Nurfaizura Fazana Kamarudin, Norehan Misiran, Masnita QA Mathematics Mathematics anxiety or mathematics phobia is a general term for several disorders that will cause panic attacks, nervousness, and social anxiety, which potentially gave negative outcomes when faced with any situation related to mathematical problems. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence mathematics anxiety among private college students. Two private colleges from north Malaysia were selected from its nine branches all over Malaysia. These colleges offered 9 different courses where each course offered mathematics subject. After conducting factor analysis, five factors were identified as reasons for the occurrence of mathematics anxiety among students. The factors are student attitude, role of teacher, skills, emotions, and peers. Structural equation model has shown that there are relationships between these five factors. Peers and role of teachers proven to have a positive direct effect on mathematics anxiety with role of teachers was found to be the strongest factor. Meanwhile, students’ attitude and skills have a negative direct effect on mathematics anxiety. Finally, emotions influence mathematics anxiety indirectly through students’ attitude Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by_nc_sa https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/30859/1/AMCI%2009%202020%2053-64.pdf Md Yusof, Zahayu and Mohd Zanuddin, Nur Hazwani and Abdul Karim, Basharoh and Zakaria, Fazlinawati and Mohammad Noor, Nurfaizura Fazana and Kamarudin, Norehan and Misiran, Masnita (2020) Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of Risk Factors for Mathematical Anxiety in Tertiary Students. Applied Mathematics and Computational Intelligence, 9. pp. 53-64. ISSN 2194-5365 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/handle/123456789/69380 |
| spellingShingle | QA Mathematics Md Yusof, Zahayu Mohd Zanuddin, Nur Hazwani Abdul Karim, Basharoh Zakaria, Fazlinawati Mohammad Noor, Nurfaizura Fazana Kamarudin, Norehan Misiran, Masnita Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of Risk Factors for Mathematical Anxiety in Tertiary Students |
| title | Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of Risk Factors for Mathematical
Anxiety in Tertiary Students |
| title_full | Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of Risk Factors for Mathematical
Anxiety in Tertiary Students |
| title_fullStr | Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of Risk Factors for Mathematical
Anxiety in Tertiary Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of Risk Factors for Mathematical
Anxiety in Tertiary Students |
| title_short | Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of Risk Factors for Mathematical
Anxiety in Tertiary Students |
| title_sort | structural equation modelling sem of risk factors for mathematical anxiety in tertiary students |
| topic | QA Mathematics |
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