Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 683-690.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.05.09

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Longitudinal Associations between Parental Involvement and Children's Math Anxiety in Primary School: The Mediating Role of Mathematics Attitude

ZHAO Xiaomeng1, ZHANG Aoxue1, ZHANG Mingliang2, LI Hongxia1, SI Jiwei1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358;
    2. Shandong Administrative Institute, Jinan 250014
  • Published:2021-09-23

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Abstract: In order to explore the longitudinal associations between parental involvement in school-age children and their own math anxiety and its internal mechanism, 1734 students in third and fourth grades were recruited from two ordinary primary schools in Liaocheng, Shandong province. All participants finished two waves of questionnaires. Results showed that:(1) Prior parental involvement could significantly reduce the subsequence math anxiety of children. But prior math anxiety of children couldn't significantly predict subsequence parental involvement; (2) Mathematics attitude mediated the relationship between parental involvement and children's math anxiety across time; (3) And the mediating effect of children's mathematics attitudes was stable at different time. These results emphasize the crucial role of parental involvement in the changes of math anxiety in school-age children, and also provide a point for effectively reducing children math anxiety.

Key words: parental involvement, math anxiety, mathematics attitude, school-age children

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  • G442
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