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Does mathematics anxiety moderate the effect of problem difficulty on cognitive effort?
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- Throndsen, Terje Ulv (author)
- Univ Oslo, Dept Special Needs Educ, Oslo, Norway.
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- Lindskog, Marcus, 1980- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för psykologi
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- Niemivirta, Markku (author)
- Univ Eastern Finland, Sch Appl Educ Sci & Teacher Educ, Helsinki, Finland.;Univ Helsinki, Dept Educ, Helsinki, Finland.
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- Univ Oslo, Dept Special Needs Educ, Oslo, Norway Institutionen för psykologi (creator_code:org_t)
- 2022-06-26
- 2022
- English.
- In: Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0036-5564 .- 1467-9450. ; 63:6, s. 601-608
- Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- A negative relationship between mathematics anxiety (MA) and mathematics performance is well documented. One suggested explanation for this relationship is that MA interferes with the cognitive processes needed when solving mathematics problems. A demand for using more cognitive effort (e.g., when performing harder mathematics problems), can be traced as an increase in pupil dilation during the performance. However, we lack knowledge of how MA affects this relationship between the problem difficulty and cognitive effort. This study investigated, for the first time, if MA moderates the effect of arithmetic (i.e., multiplication) problem difficulty on cognitive effort. Thirty-four university students from Norway completed multiplication tasks, including three difficulty levels of problems, while their cognitive effort was also measured by means of pupil dilation using an eye tracker. Further, the participants reported their MA using a questionnaire, and arithmetic competence, general intelligence, and working memory were measured with paper-pencil tasks. A linear mixed model analysis showed that the difficulty level of the multiplication problems affected the cognitive effort so that the pupil dilated more with harder multiplication problems. However, we did not find a moderating effect of MA on cognitive effort, when controlling for arithmetic competence, general intelligence, and working memory. This suggests that MA does not contribute to cognitive effort when solving multiplication problems.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Psykologi -- Tillämpad psykologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Psychology -- Applied Psychology (hsv//eng)
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- Cognitive effort
- mathematics anxiety
- arithmetic
- working memory
- pupillometry
- eye tracking
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