Marušić, Iris and Matić, Jelena (2017) The role of personality, self-concept and defensive motivation in predicting maths anxiety. In: Stress and anxiety: coping and resilience. Logos Berlin, Berlin, pp. 95-103. ISBN 978-3-8325-4507-9
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IN ENGLISH: The goal of this research was to explore the relationships between personality, self- concept, learning strategies and mathematics anxiety in elementary school students. The sample consisted of 511 8th grade students from 36 Croatian elementary schools who completed the Maths Anxiety Scale, Big Five Inventory, the Self-Description Questionnaire-II and measures of self-regulatory learning strategies to assess self-handicapping, defensive pessimism and external attribution of failure. Separate hierarchical regression analyses were conducted by gender to test the predictive power of personality, self-concept and defensive motivational strategies on mathematics anxiety. Results indicate that the variables explained significant variance for both genders (girls R-square = .54 ; boys R- square = .38). Personality, self-concept and motivational strategies were all related to maths anxiety, however, a different pattern emerged with respect to gender. Maths self-concept is significantly negatively related to maths anxiety for both genders, while for boys, maths anxiety is related to low agreeableness and the use of external attribution of failure, and in girls it is predicted by higher neuroticism and defensive pessimism. Results indicate that maladaptive patterns of academic beliefs, motivations and behaviour related to mathematics in Croatian students are to some extent gender-specific, thus calling for specific intervention strategies tailored for boys and girls. --------------- IN CROATIAN: Cilj ovoga istraživanja bio je istražiti odnose između osobina ličnosti, samopoimanja, strategija učenja i straha od matematike kod učenika osnovnih škola. Uzorak se sastojao od 511 učenika 8. razreda iz 36 hrvatskih osnovnih škola. Sudionici su ispunili Skalu za ispitivanje straha od matematike, Big Five inventar ličnosti, Self-Description Questionnaire-II i mjere samoregulirajućih strategija učenja za procjenu samohendikepiranja, defanzivnog pesimizma i vanjske atribucije neuspjeha. Da bi se provjerila prediktivna snaga osobina ličnosti, samopoimanja i defanzivnih motivacijskih strategija u objašnjenju straha od matematike, provedene su odvojene hijerarhijske regresijske analize na poduzorku učenica i učenika. Rezultati pokazuju da uključene varijable objašnjavaju značajan dio varijance straha od matematike kod oba roda (učenice R2 = .54; učenici R2 = .38). Osobine ličnosti, samopoimanje i motivacijske strategije učenja u oba su slučaja značajno povezane sa strahom od matematike, no uočljiv je različit obrazac povezanosti s obzirom na rod sudionika. Matematičko samopoimanje značajno je negativno povezano sa strahom od matematike kod oba roda, dok je kod učenika strah od matematike povezan i s niskom ugodnošću i vanjskom atribucijom neuspjeha, a kod učenica i s višim neuroticizmom i defanzivnim pesimizmom. Rezultati upućuju da su maladaptivni obrasci akademskih uvjerenja, motivacije i ponašanja povezani s matematikom kod hrvatskih učenika donekle rodno specifični, što upućuje na potrebu provedbe specifičnih intervencija prilagođenih učenicima i učenicama.
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| Additional Information: | Language: English. - Title in Croatian: Uloga ličnosti, samopoimanja i defanzivne motivacije u predviđanju straha od matematike. - Book editors: Kathleen A. Moore, Petra Buchwald. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Maths anxiety, personality, self-concept, defensive motivation (strah od matematike, ličnost, samopoimanje, defanzivna motivacija) |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > L Education (General) |
| Depositing User: | Karolina |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2017 08:36 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Sep 2017 12:56 |
| URI: | http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/id/eprint/774 |
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