Math anxiety, a hierarchical constructDevelopment and validation of the Scale for Assessing Math Anxiety in Secondary education

  1. Lara Yáñez-Marquina 1
  2. Lourdes Villardón-Gallego 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Deusto
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    Universidad de Deusto

    Bilbao, España

    ROR https://ror.org/00ne6sr39

Revista:
Ansiedad y estrés

ISSN: 1134-7937

Año de publicación: 2017

Volumen: 23

Número: 2-3

Páginas: 59-65

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1016/J.ANYES.2017.10.001 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

El bajo rendimiento y dedicación de los estudiantes de secundaria a las matemáticas está estrechamente relacionado con la ansiedad matemática. A pesar de la investigación internacional, la conceptualización teórica del constructo ansiedad matemática es todavía debatida, mostrando fuertes discrepancias relativas a su estructura factorial. Por tanto, el objetivo de este estudio es desarrollar y validar un nuevo instrumento, denominado Scale for Assessing Math Anxiety in Secondary Education (SAMAS), para el que se analizan diferentes modelos mediante Análisis Factorial Confirmatorio. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 563 estudiantes, con una edad media de 13.96 (DE=1.09) años. Los resultados ampliamente confirmaron que la estructura jerárquica fue la que arrojó el mejor ajuste del modelo (χ2[166, N=563]=361.22; RMSEA=.046; SRMR=.045; NNFI=.94; CFI=.95), resultando en un instrumento psicométricamente robusto de 20 items, compuesto por 3 factores subyacentes.

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