The Mathematics Anxiety-Complexity Effect in Word Problems.

Gabriella Daroczy, Felix Cramer, Christina Artemenko, Thomas E Hunt, Hans-Christoph Nuerk

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Article in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Gabriella DaroczyDepartment of Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7154-4940

Felix CramerDepartment of Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany.ORCID 0009-0004-5414-4015

Christina ArtemenkoDepartment of Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Thomas E HuntSchool of Science, University of Derby, UK.

Hans-Christoph NuerkDepartment of Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

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Abstract

Word problems are notoriously difficult for students to solve and require both mathematical and linguistic processes. Moreover, word problem-solving performance might also be negatively affected by mathematics (math) anxiety, particularly when task complexity increases. Therefore, the study investigated whether math anxiety impacts word problem performance, particularly when mathematical difficulty (i.e., arithmetic carry/borrow operations) or linguistic difficulty (i.e., lexical consistency) increases. In an online experiment with

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AnxietyMathematicsProblem SolvingVocabularyAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleYoung Adultanxiety-complexity effectarithmetic complexitylexical consistencymathematics anxietyonline experimentword problems

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PMID41700602

DOI10.1177/17470218261425251

PMCPMC13400789

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