SynthesisPsychological bulletin2021
A meta-analysis of the relation between math anxiety and math achievement.
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121 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The association between reading anxiety and reading achievement: A meta-analysis and systematic review.Psychological bulletin · 2026Pooled 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
- Research on mathematics anxiety in primary school: bibliometric analysis and evaluation of trends.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Unpacking mathematical gender stereotypes: trends and directions from 25 years of research.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Mathematics Skills in Epilepsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- The prevalence of mathematical difficulties among primary school children in Mainland China: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Working Memory and Its Mediating Role on the Relationship of Math Anxiety and Math Performance: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Initial Evidence of Mathematics Interpretation Bias Intervention Effects on College Students' Mathematics Anxiety.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Trial
- Daily breath-based mindfulness exercises in a randomized controlled trial improve primary school children's performance in arithmetic.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- When Development Falls out of Sync: A Developmental Timing Framework for Learning Disabilities.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Relations Between Parents' Math Anxiety and Children's Math Learning: The Role of Homework Help.Developmental science · 2026Article
- The Tripartite Structure of Preparation Anxiety: Development and Validation of the Preparation Anxiety Scale.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- 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
- Gender differences in computation strategies: Evidence across adolescent and adult samples.The British journal of educational psychology · 2026Article
- Bidirectional Relations Between Spatial and Mathematics Skills in Elementary School Children: The Role of Domain-Specific Anxieties.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- The impact of teacher support on high school students' mathematics achievement: the mediating roles of mathematics anxiety and learning engagement.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- General and Specific Facets of Anxiety: Psychometric Analysis and Impact on Cognitive Performance.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Prospective Indirect Effect of Mathematics Interest in the Relationship Between Mathematics Anxiety and Self-Concept: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Meta-analyses from the 1990s previously have established a significant, small-to-moderate, and negative correlation between math achievement and math anxiety. Since these publications, research has continued to investigate this relation with more diverse samples and measures. Thus, the goal of the present meta-analysis was to provide an update of the math anxiety-math achievement relation and its moderators. Analyzing 747 effect sizes accumulated from research conducted between 1992 and 2018, we found a small-to-moderate, negative, and statistically significant correlation (
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