SynthesisFrontiers in psychology2021
Working Memory and Its Mediating Role on the Relationship of Math Anxiety and Math Performance: A Meta-Analysis.
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- Initial Evidence of Mathematics Interpretation Bias Intervention Effects on College Students' Mathematics Anxiety.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Trial
- Mathematics Anxiety Is Associated With Attentional and Memory-Related Neural Activity During Numerical Cognition.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Math Anxiety and Its Relations to Arithmetic Fluency and Number Processing: Evidence From Finnish, Finnish-Swedish, and Swedish Fourth-Grade Students.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Domain-general and domain-specific cognitive factors mediating the relationship between math anxiety and mathematical performance in primary school children.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The relationship between physical activity, working memory, and mathematics achievement on the basis of socioeconomic status: the mediating role of physical fitness level.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Mathematics self-efficacy and resilience link ICT use to mathematical literacy: the moderating role of mathematics anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 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 Relationship Between the Mathematics Anxiety and Mathematics Achievement of Middle School Students: The Moderating Effect of Working Memory.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Examining the roles of working memory and trait anxiety on math achievement in children with ADHD.Neuropsychology · 2025Article
- The influence of physical fatigue on telephone-based neuropsychological test performance in COVID-19 survivors.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2025Article
- The interplay between ego-resiliency, math anxiety and working memory in math achievement.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Affective and cognitive factors associated with Chinese and Italian children's arithmetic performance.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Introducing non-cognitive load to the educational discourse.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Factors predicting the mathematics anxiety of adolescents: a structural equation modeling approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Basic Symbolic Number Skills, but Not Formal Mathematics Performance, Longitudinally Predict Mathematics Anxiety in the First Years of Primary School.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Task-based attentional and default mode connectivity associated with science and math anxiety profiles among university physics students.Trends in neuroscience and education · 2023Article
- Towards an Integrative Model of Math Cognition: Interactions between Working Memory and Emotions in Explaining Children's Math Performance.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- The Arabic version of the modified-abbreviated math anxiety scale: Psychometric properties, gender differences, and associations with different forms of anxiety and math achievement.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
It is well established that math anxiety has a negative relationship with math performance (MP). A few theories have provided explanations for this relationship. One of them, the Attentional Control Theory (ACT), suggests that anxiety can negatively impact the attentional control system and increase one's attention to threat-related stimuli. Within the ACT framework, the math anxiety (MA)-working memory (WM) relationship is argued to be critical for math performance. The present meta-analyses provides insights into the mechanisms of the MA-MP relation and the mediating role of WM. Through database searches with pre-determined search strings, 1,346 unique articles were identified. After excluding non-relevant studies, data from 57 studies and 150 effect sizes were used for investigating the MA-MP correlation using a random-effects model. This resulted in a mean correlation of
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