Math Anxiety |
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| Authors: | David Royse Elizabeth Lewis Rompf |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Kentucky;2. College of Social Work , University of Kentucky , Washington , DC |
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| Abstract: | Social work students often complain and grumble about having to take courses in research methods and statistics. Do their complaints originate from deep-seated math anxiety? The current study investigated the math anxiety and math backgrounds of 163 undergraduate social work students and 256 non—social work majors. Social work majors were found to have much higher levels of math anxiety than a cross section of students enrolled in introductory statistics courses and found to have taken fewer math courses in high school and college. |
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