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The nature, effects, and relief of Mathematics anxiety

Anxiety has fostered strong research concerns within the last quarter century
(Endler & Edwards, 1982). The construct is broadly defined to be a state of emotion underpinned by qualities of fear and dread (Lewis, 1970 ). This emotion is
unpleasant, is directed toward the future, and is out of all proportion to the threat.
Its special characteristics are "the feelings of uncertainty and helplessness in the
face of danger" (May, 1977, p. 205). Anxiety is an omnibus construct, and under
its rubric there has appeared a host of subconstructs that relate to discrete situations. In academics, two of these seem prominent: test anxiety and mathematics
anxiety.

The nature, effects, and relief of Mathematics anxiety

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The nature, effects, and relief of Mathematics anxiety

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