Emotional processing of math-related words in people with math anxiety.

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-17 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2023.2295476

Rocío Linares, Santiago Pelegrina, Rafael Delgado-Rodríguez

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Abstract

Background: Research exploring emotional responses to math-related words in individuals with math anxiety (MA) is scarce. Here, we examined MA participants' subjective emotional processing of math-related cues within Lang's bioinformational model of emotion to further understand the role of those cues in MA.

Methods: In total, 41 high-MA and 32 low-MA undergraduates rated math-related words, along with neutral, pleasant, and unpleasant words, from the Affective Norms for English Words. The Self-Assessment Manikin was used to calculate valence, arousal, and dominance scores for each word.

Results: The low-MA group rated math-related words as neutral on the three emotional scales, however, the high-MA group rated them lower and higher for valence and dominance than neutral and unpleasant words, respectively. Moreover, math-related words were rated as more and less activating than neutral and unpleasant words, respectively. The two groups significantly differed in scores on the three scales only for the math-related words.

Conclusions: These results provide evidence that individuals with high MA show altered emotional processing of math-related words, experiencing them as moderately aversive and moderately activating. The findings emphasize that the altered emotional processing of words associated with math should be considered a symptom of MA.

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数学焦虑症患者对数学相关词汇的情感处理。

背景：探索数学焦虑症（MA）患者对数学相关词汇的情绪反应的研究很少。在此，我们根据 Lang 的生物信息情感模型研究了数学焦虑参与者对数学相关线索的主观情感处理，以进一步了解这些线索在数学焦虑中的作用：总共有 41 名高 MA 和 32 名低 MA 本科生对英语单词情感规范中与数学相关的单词以及中性、愉快和不愉快的单词进行了评分。使用自我评估人体模型计算每个单词的情感、唤醒和支配得分：结果：在三个情感量表上，低马太效应组对数学相关词语的评价为中性，然而，高马太效应组对数学相关词语的情感和支配性评价分别低于中性和不愉快词语，也高于中性和不愉快词语。此外，数学相关词语的激活程度分别高于中性词语和不愉快词语。两组人在三个量表上的得分仅在数学相关词语上有明显差异：这些结果提供了证据，表明高 MA 患者对数学相关词语的情绪加工发生了改变，他们对这些词语的体验是中度厌恶和中度激活。研究结果强调，对数学相关词语的情绪加工改变应被视为数学障碍的一种症状。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Multiple-

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期刊介绍： This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.