Investigating spatial skills and math anxiety as mediators in a sequential mediation model: A pilot study
Prior research showed a gender effect on spatial ability, math anxiety, and math achievement. Lacking, however, is a comprehensive study that testedthe mediation effects of spatial ability and math anxiety between gender and math achievement in a sequential mediation model. To fill this gap, this pi...
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| description | Prior research showed a gender effect on spatial ability, math anxiety, and math achievement. Lacking, however, is a comprehensive study that testedthe mediation effects of spatial ability and math anxiety between gender and math achievement in a sequential mediation model. To fill this gap, this pilot study tested two mediation relationships, one with spatial ability as a mediator, gender as a predictor, and math anxiety as an outcome variable; the other with math anxiety as a mediator, spatial ability as a predictor, and math achievement as an outcome variable. In addition, the study tested the relative strengths of the relationship between specific spatial skills that included perspective-taking, spatial imagery, and mental rotation and collegiate math achievement that included trigonometry, calculus, and linear algebra) via canonical correlations. Lastly, gender differences in spatial skills, math anxiety, and math achievement were investigated. The results of the independent t-tests showed that none of the well-documented gender differences in spatial ability was found. Canonical correlation analysis showed that a single canonical variable is sufficient in accounting for math-spatial relationship. The sequential mediation model, with spatial ability and math achievement serving as themediators in the model, fitted reasonably well. However, none of the mediation effects was statistically significant. Implications of these findings and future directions of this research are discussed |
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| spelling | oai:ojs2.journals.ums.ac.id:article-15157 Investigating spatial skills and math anxiety as mediators in a sequential mediation model: A pilot study Wang, Lu gender, spatial skills, math anxiety, math achievement, mediation Prior research showed a gender effect on spatial ability, math anxiety, and math achievement. Lacking, however, is a comprehensive study that testedthe mediation effects of spatial ability and math anxiety between gender and math achievement in a sequential mediation model. To fill this gap, this pilot study tested two mediation relationships, one with spatial ability as a mediator, gender as a predictor, and math anxiety as an outcome variable; the other with math anxiety as a mediator, spatial ability as a predictor, and math achievement as an outcome variable. In addition, the study tested the relative strengths of the relationship between specific spatial skills that included perspective-taking, spatial imagery, and mental rotation and collegiate math achievement that included trigonometry, calculus, and linear algebra) via canonical correlations. Lastly, gender differences in spatial skills, math anxiety, and math achievement were investigated. The results of the independent t-tests showed that none of the well-documented gender differences in spatial ability was found. Canonical correlation analysis showed that a single canonical variable is sufficient in accounting for math-spatial relationship. The sequential mediation model, with spatial ability and math achievement serving as themediators in the model, fitted reasonably well. However, none of the mediation effects was statistically significant. Implications of these findings and future directions of this research are discussed Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta 2021-10-29 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://journals.ums.ac.id/index.php/jramathedu/article/view/15157 10.23917/jramathedu.v6i4.15157 JRAMathEdu (Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education); Volume 6 Issue 4 October 2021; 388-403 2541-2590 2503-3697 10.23917/jramathedu.v6i4 eng https://journals.ums.ac.id/index.php/jramathedu/article/view/15157/6993 Copyright (c) 2021 Lu Wang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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| title | Investigating spatial skills and math anxiety as mediators in a sequential mediation model: A pilot study |
| title_full | Investigating spatial skills and math anxiety as mediators in a sequential mediation model: A pilot study |
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| title_short | Investigating spatial skills and math anxiety as mediators in a sequential mediation model: A pilot study |
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| topic | gender, spatial skills, math anxiety, math achievement, mediation |
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