Exploring the Relationships of Language Pattern, Math Anxiety, Self-esteem, and Curiosity

Math Anxiety (MA) is some of the most notable mental health issues. The causes and development of MA are complex and inconclusive. This study highlighted that language patterns differ between people with high and low MA. Especially, the word categories positive emotion, insight, articles and linguistic dimensions. This study included two...

Evaluating the effect of emotions on academic achievement in mathematics: A quantile regression and Bayesian quantile regression approach

Quantile regression is a useful method to analyse data such that the estimates are more robust to outliers and the conditional distributions are more reliable for asymmetric distributions with respect to the commonly used ordinary least squares regression. Besides this, the quantile regression analysis might also include extra information on the...

Factors in the behaviour of mathematics teachers that influence math anxiety amongst high school students

This study examines which factors in the behaviour of math teachers in their contact with high school students contribute to the developing, worsening or alleviating of math anxiety during mathematics activities. <br/>The study was conducted in the form of a survey involving $888$ high school students during their math lesson. The survey...