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PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 196-208Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1745691613518077
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measures; statistics anxiety; interventions; literature review; antecedents; effects
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Appreciation of the importance of statistics literacy for citizens of a democracy has resulted in an increasing number of degree programs making statistics courses mandatory for university students. Unfortunately, empirical evidence suggests that students in nonmathematical disciplines (e.g., social sciences) regard statistics courses as the most anxiety-inducing course in their degree programs. Although a literature review exists for statistics anxiety, it was done more than a decade ago, and newer studies have since added findings for consideration. In this article, we provide a current review of the statistics anxiety literature. Specifically, related variables, definitions, and measures of statistics anxiety are reviewed with the goal of refining the statistics anxiety construct. Antecedents, effects, and interventions of statistics anxiety are also reviewed to provide recommendations for statistics instructors and for a new research agenda.
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