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Children's perceptions of parents' math attitude moderate the relation between parents' math anxiety and children's
Fraulein Retanal1, Elena G Bakker1, Elora Wales2
1School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Abstract:
Do children's perception of their parents' math attitudes contribute to their own math anxiety? From 2023 to 2024, one hundred and six parent (53.8% White, 76.4% Mothers) child (Mage = 8.75, 49.1% White, 54.7% Female) dyads in Canada reported their own math anxiety and children additionally reported their perception of parents' math enjoyment. Higher parental math anxiety predicted lower perceived parent math enjoyment, especially for girls. Children's perception of their parents' math enjoyment also moderated the relation between parents' and children's math anxiety. These findings reveal children's perception of parental math attitude as a novel social mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of math anxiety and identify a link between gender differences in math anxiety and the development of children's emotional awareness.
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