Mechanisms of the intergenerational transmission of math anxiety from mothers to their children
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Math anxiety is prevalent among children as early as first grade, and recent research suggests that the development of math anxiety among elementary school children may be influenced by their interactions with math-anxious teachers and parents. This study examined maternal behaviors that might, in part, explain how math anxiety is transferred from mothers to children during math homework-helping situations, namely mothers' use of autonomy-support versus controlling behaviors, their use of person- versus process-based praise, and their affect. Forty mothers and their second- or third-grade children completed two math worksheet tasks together, which were videotaped and coded for maternal behaviors. Mothers' and children's math anxiety and perceptions of their math competence were also assessed. Findings revealed that mothers' math anxiety is significantly and positively associated with boys', but not girls', math anxiety. Additionally, mothers' with high math anxiety were more likely to adopt controlling behaviors when helping their children with a math task and were more likely to make negative affective comments, especially when the math problem was difficult for the child. Children's math anxiety was predicted by mothers' use of controlling behaviors and their use of negative affective comments.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | LeMahieu, Rebekah A |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Stipek, Deborah J, 1950- |
| Thesis advisor | Stipek, Deborah J, 1950- |
| Thesis advisor | Langer-Osuna, Jennifer |
| Thesis advisor | Levine, Susan |
| Degree committee member | Langer-Osuna, Jennifer |
| Degree committee member | Levine, Susan |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Rebekah A. LeMahieu. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Rebekah LeMahieu
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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