{"pk":29830,"title":"Vicious Loop? Longitudinal Relations Between Math Anxiety and MathPerformance for Grade 2 and 3 Students","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Math anxiety is a common correlate of math performance. However, the causal direction of this relation is unclear.Research with young students is limited but critical for determining patterns of development. Students (N = 147) completedmath measures (i.e., number comparison, arithmetic fluency, and math problem solving) and math anxiety assessmentstwice, first in grade 2 (Mage = 7 years:10 months) and then a year later in grade 3. Correlational analysis revealed thatmath anxiety is related only to arithmetic fluency, related to other types of math performance. Cross-lagged analyses wereconducted to evaluate causal relations between math anxiety and arithmetic fluency. These analyses showed that arithmeticfluency in grade 2 predicted change in math anxiety from grade 2 to grade 3, however, math anxiety in grade 2 did notpredict the change in arithmetic fluency from grade 2 to grade 3. These results suggest that math anxiety may be the resultof poor math performance.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 2","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95s103kp","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Shujie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Song","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Chang","middle_name":"","last_name":"Xu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jo-Anne","middle_name":"","last_name":"LeFevre","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Sheri-Lynn","middle_name":"","last_name":"Skwarchuk","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Winnipeg","department":""},{"first_name":"Erin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Maloney","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Ottawa","department":""},{"first_name":"Helena","middle_name":"P.","last_name":"Osana","name_suffix":"","institution":"Concordia University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29830/galley/19684/download/"}]}