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ArticleJournal of Intelligence2026

Bidirectional Relations Between Spatial and Mathematics Skills in Elementary School Children: The Role of Domain-Specific Anxieties.

Elyssa A Geer, Connie Barroso, Colleen M Ganley

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Article in Journal of Intelligence, 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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Elyssa A GeerAnita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0238-4899
Connie BarrosoDepartment of Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0066-1602
Colleen M GanleyDepartment of Psychology and Learning Systems Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8902-9189

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United States Department of Education R305A170463
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Abstract

Research has demonstrated a link between spatial and mathematics skills, although less research has addressed the directionality of this relation and what factors may impact the spatial-mathematics link. Two such factors may be spatial and mathematics anxiety, which are related to performance in their respective domains, but may also play a cross-domain role in the relation between spatial and mathematics skills. Importantly, these relations are prudent to investigate in children when mathematics and spatial skills are early in their development. To bridge the gap, the present study examined the direction of the relation between spatial and mathematics skills across two waves of data and the domain specificity of cognitive anxieties (spatial and mathematics anxiety) as they relate to their respective skill in children. In a sample of 647 U.S. first-graders (

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domain specificitymathematicsmathematics anxietymental rotationspatial anxietyspatial cognition

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PMID42188273
PMCPMC13207808

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