Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS)
Psychology: Mental Health1 sample item
About this scale
Mathematics anxiety is a negative emotion associated to mathematics related activities, such as mathematics homework. Mathematics anxiety is related to poorer mathematics performance. The subject mathematics anxiety has been studied since the work of Richardson and Suinn in the early 1970s. There is still a growing number of publications about the subject.
Sample item(s)
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Notes
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Source & citation
D.R. Hopko, R. Mahadevan, R.L. Bare, & Melassa K. Hunt. (2003). The Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS): Construction, Validity, and Reliability. Assessment, 10 , 178-182. | F.C. Richardson and R.M. Suinn (1972). Mathematics anxiety rating scale - psychometric data. Journal of Counselling Psychology, 6 , 551.
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