Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 214, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105302
Keywords
Math anxiety; Numeracy; Parents; Math; Preschool; Prekindergarten
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This study examined the association between parents' math anxiety and the change in children's mathematics performance during the preschool year, finding a significant negative relationship. The association did not differ for male versus female children.
Prior research demonstrates that individuals' math anxiety may be negatively related to their mathematics performance. However, lit-tle research has examined how caregivers' math anxiety is associ-ated with children's mathematics performance prior to kindergarten. The purpose of this study was to investigate the rela-tion 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 perfor-mance during the pre-kindergarten year when controlling for fall mathematics performance and demographics. Moreover, multi -group path analyses revealed that this association did not differ for male versus female children. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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