Math anxiety appears early in life and extends
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Math anxiety appears early in life and extends into adulthood. Initial signs of math anxiety emerge early in primary school, becoming more specific and progressively more detrimental throughout education. There is a need to develop effectiv
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Sourced from the abstract and stated challenges of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2007 and 2025, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 247 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Cognitive Errors, Anxiety Sensitivity, and Anxiety Control Beliefs (2007) · Behavior Modification · cited 93× · doi
Existing research has suggested that these constructs are related to childhood anxiety disorder symptoms; however, additional research is needed to test the interrelations among negative cognitive errors, anxiety sensitivity, and anxiety control beliefs and to determine if they show unique and specific associations with anxiety symptoms.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: anxiety symptoms existing constructs related childhood disorder additional needed test interrelations among negative cognitive errors - Child Sexual Abuse in the Etiology of Anxiety Disorders (2012) · Trauma Violence & Abuse · cited 152× · doi
Although a growing number of research studies have been published, these have produced inconsistent results and conclusions regarding the nature of the associations between child sexual abuse and the various forms of anxiety problems as well as the potential effects of third variables, such as moderators, mediators, or confounders.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: growing number published produced inconsistent conclusions regarding nature associations child sexual abuse various forms anxiety - The Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS): Applicability and Utility in a Sample of Japanese Elementary School Children (2025) · International Journal of Psychology · cited 2× · doi
Math anxiety appears early in life and extends into adulthood. Initial signs of math anxiety emerge early in primary school, becoming more specific and progressively more detrimental throughout education. There is a need to develop effective screening tools for math anxiety in young children.
generalstated challengesevidence 5/5Keywords: math anxiety appears early life extends adulthood initial
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