Anxiety and poor Performance Facing Exams and Studying Mathematics: Predictive Research on Applicants to the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria of Lima (Peru)
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The present study aims to identify the predictive relationships between the mathematics test anxiety, math study anxiety and academic mathematics performance in pre-university students. The participants were 61 pre-university students candidates to the engineering careers (28 men (45.9%) and 33 women (54.1%)) between 15 and 26 years old $(M_{age}=17.\mathrm{S}2$, SD =1.76). One concludes that the mathematics test anxiety level is higher in women (Mean =4.30, p<.01) that in men (Mean =3.27, p<.01). Then, to men, the analysis of simple lineal regressions shows that the mathematics test anxiety predicts the math study anxiety ($\beta=-.55, p\lt 01)$. And to women, the analysis of multiple lineal regressions shows that the mathematics test anxiety predicts negatively the academic mathematics performance $(\beta=-.54,\ \mathrm{p}\lt .05)$, but math study anxiety does not predict the academic performance mathematics $(\beta=-.39,\ \mathrm{p}\gt .05)$.