Longitudinal relationship between mathematics learning engagement and children's mathematics achievement: Different roles of children's mathematics anxiety and positive parenting style
Han Xiao , Jingyuan Yang , Jingyi Zhang , Huanyu Li , Xiao Yu
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Abstract
To clarify how individual factors (i.e., mathematics learning engagement and mathematics anxiety) and family environmental factors (i.e., parenting style) longitudinally contribute to children's mathematics achievement, 323 Chinese primary school children (Mage = 10.02 ± 0.88, 58.51 % girls) were measured at 3 times (June 2021, December 2021 and June 2022). After controlling for gender, age, and T1 mathematics achievement, children's T1 mathematics anxiety played a fully mediating role between T1 mathematics learning engagement and T2 (T3) mathematics achievement. T2 mathematics anxiety and T2 mathematics achievement played fully longitudinal chain mediating roles between T1 mathematics learning engagement and T3 mathematics achievement. Moreover, T2 positive parenting style moderated the path from children's T1 mathematics learning engagement to T2 mathematics anxiety, demonstrating the stress sensitization model of moderation. With China's new educational legislation, these findings provide a glimpse into the crucial mechanisms in the long-term associations related to children's mathematics learning.
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Learning and Individual Differences is a research journal devoted to publishing articles of individual differences as they relate to learning within an educational context. The Journal focuses on original empirical studies of high theoretical and methodological rigor that that make a substantial scientific contribution. Learning and Individual Differences publishes original research. Manuscripts should be no longer than 7500 words of primary text (not including tables, figures, references).