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The Relationship Between Math Anxiety and Math Performance: A Meta-Analytic Investigation.
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64 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- What shapes mathematics anxiety in K-12 education? A scoping review of research from 2019 to 2025.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of the effects of academic interventions on academic and academic anxiety outcomes in secondary students.Journal of school psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of the relationship between university students' anxiety and academic performance during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of the relation between math anxiety and math achievement.Psychological bulletin · 2021Pooled it
- Working Memory and Its Mediating Role on the Relationship of Math Anxiety and Math Performance: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Daily breath-based mindfulness exercises in a randomized controlled trial improve primary school children's performance in arithmetic.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- The Mathematics Anxiety-Complexity Effect in Word Problems.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2026Article
- Mathematics anxiety: Effects of age, gender and culture.The British journal of educational psychology · 2026Review
- Bidirectional Relations Between Spatial and Mathematics Skills in Elementary School Children: The Role of Domain-Specific Anxieties.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- When Anger Strikes: Using AI Modelling to Understand How Negative Emotions Impact Performance in Digital Math Games.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Anxiety and Performance in High-Achieving Adolescents: Associations Among 8 General and Specific Anxiety Measures and 13 School Grades.PsyCh journal · 2026Article
- The dynamics of state math anxiety vary by paradigm and timing during arithmetic.NPJ science of learning · 2026Article
- Domain-general and domain-specific cognitive factors mediating the relationship between math anxiety and mathematical performance in primary school children.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Lower resting-state EEG mean eigenvector centrality is associated with higher math anxiety.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Reading and math anxiety in children: differential roles of state and trait components in academic performance, and the moderating effects of intelligence and time pressure.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- The utility of theFrontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Mathematics anxiety and self-efficacy among students in Hong Kong and Macao (China): socioeconomic disadvantage as a moderator of academic achievement.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- More Than Just Anxiety: Math Attitudes as Key Driver of University Choice.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- A CAVE Survey for Measuring Mathematics Attitudes Based on the Characteristics of Students in Mainland China.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Low math anxiety prevents math achievement decline for urban but not rural Chinese schoolchildren.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Math anxiety (MA) has been suggested to decrease the math performance of students. However, it remains unclear what factors moderate this relationship. The aim of this research was to explore the link between MA and math performance. Studies that explored the math anxiety-performance link, conducted from 2000 to 2019 (84 samples,
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