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Psychometric properties of the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) in Italian primary school children
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Learning and Individual Differences
Volume 55, 1 April 2017, Pages 174-182
Psychometric properties of the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) in Italian primary school children (Article)
Caviola, S.a ,
Primi, C.b,
Chiesi, F.b,
Mammarella, I.C.c
a Centre for Neuroscience in Education, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
b Neurofarba, Section of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy
c Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Italy
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Abstract
Given the widespread prevalence of mathematics anxiety (MA) and its detrimental long-term impact on academic performance and professional development, it is essential to develop standardized tools capable of identifying MA as early as possible. One of the scales most often used to assess MA is the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) (Hopko, Mahadevan, Bare, & Hunt, 2003). The first aim of the present study was to validate this tool in a large sample of Italian primary school children, to confirm the factor structure of the AMAS and to develop standardized norms that can be used in the clinical field. Moreover, as the relation between MA and gender has been extensively reported in adult samples, a second goal of the study was to test the invariance of the scale across genders
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Measuring math anxiety in Italian college and high school students: Validity, reliability and gender invariance of the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS)
No full textGiven that the ability to manage numbers is essential in a modern society, mathematics anxiety – which has been demonstrated to have unfortunate consequences in terms of mastery of math – has become a subject of increasing interest, and the need to accurately measure it has arisen. One of the widely employed scales to measure math anxiety is the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) (Hopko, Mahadevan, Bare & Hunt, 2003). The first aim of the present paper was to confirm the factor structure of the AMAS when administered to Italian high school and college students, and to test the invariance of the scale across educational levels. Additionally, we assessed the reliability and validity of the Italian version of the scale. Finally, we tested the invariance of the AMAS across genders. The overall findings provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the AMAS when administered to Italian students
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