Mathematics Anxiety

Irene C. Mammarella is Associate Professor at the University of Padova, Italy. Her research interests include the role of working memory and emotional aspects in specific learning disorders, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. She is the cofounder of a clinical university centre for neurodevelopmental disorders (LabDA srl) and coauthored the book Nonverbal learning disabilities (Guilford Press, 2016). Sara Caviola is a Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK. She won a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship and spent two years at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge. Her main interests include analyses of cognitive and emotional underpinnings of mathematical cognition, in both children and adult populations. Ann Dowker is University Research Lecturer at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK. She has edited and coedited several books, and is the author of Individual Differences in Arithmetic: Implications for Psychology, Neuroscience and Education (Psychology Press, 2005; second edition to be published in 2019). She is the lead researcher on the Catch Up Numeracy intervention project.

Preface

Chapter 1 - Models of Math Anxiety by Mark H. Ashcraft

Chapter 2 - Different Ways to Measure Math Anxiety by Krzysztof Cipora, Christina Artemenko and Hans-Christoph Nuerk

Chapter 3 - Psychophysiological correlates of Mathematics Anxiety by Chiara Avancini & Denes Szücs

Chapter 4 – Mathematics Anxiety and Peformance by Ann Dowker

Chapter 5 - Acquisition, Development and Maintenance of Maths Anxiety in Young Children by Dominic Petronzi, Paul Staples, David Sheffield and Thomas Hunt

Chapter 6 - Mathematics Anxiety and Working Memory: What is the Relationship? By Maria Chiara Passolunghi, Marija Živković, and Sandra Pellizzoni

Chapter 7 - The Different Involvement of Working Memory in Math and Test Anxiety by Ee Lynn Ng, Kerry Lee

Chapter 8 - Math Anxiety in Children with and without Mathematical Difficulties:

The role of Gender and Genetic Factors by Sara Caviola, Irene C. Mammarella and Yulia Kovas

Chapter 9 - Probing the Nature of Deficits in Math Anxiety: Drawing Connections between Attention and Numerical Cognition by Orly Rubinsten, Hili Eidlin Levy and Lital Daches Cohen

Chapter 10 - Gender Stereotypes, Anxiety, and Math Outcomes in Adults and Children by

Carlo Tomasetto

Chapter 11 - The Role of Parents’ and Teachers’ Math Anxiety in Children’s Math Learning and Attitudes by Julianne B. Herts, Sian L. Beilock, and Susan C. Levine

Concluding Remarks by Irene C. Mammarella, Sara Caviola, and Ann Dowker