Servicios Personalizados
Revista
Articulo
Links relacionados
Compartir
Ciencias Psicológicas
versión On-line ISSN 1688-4221
Resumen
MATO VAZQUEZ, María Dorinda; MUNOZ CANTERO, Jesús Miguel y CHAO FERNANDEZ, Rocío. INFLUENCE OF THE PROFESSION OF THE PARENTS IN THE ANXIETY TOWARDS THE MATHEMATICS AND ITS RELATION WITH ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN PUPILS OF SECONDARY. Cienc. Psicol. [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.1, pp.69-77. ISSN 1688-4221.
In the present investigation the familiar influence had be as principal aim approach in the anxiety towards the mathematics and its relation with Academic Performance in pupils of Secondary Obligatory Education. One of the arguments that one presents is the fact that the anxiety forms a part of the subjective knowledge of the persons, depends on the environment where it develops and is determinant when it is a question of describing, to understanding or making clear the success or the failure of the students. One of the variables that acquires more importance is the familiar context of the individual. To know those different forms, to understand the meaning of emotional dimension when they work on mathematics, and the feelings of frustration, happiness or anxiety, can help to improve teaching, which will have a notable influence on their performance. The used instrument was the questionnaire of anxiety designed by Mato (2006) that provides information about the anxiety before the evaluation, the comprehension of problems, to realize operations and to have to face real-life situations related to the mathematics. The obtained results emphasize that the professions of the parents and of the mothers mark significant differences in how much to the anxiety of his children and a negative correlation exists between the anxiety and the qualifications obtained by the pupils in the subject during the previous course
Palabras clave : anxiety towards the mathematics; measurement; reliability; academic achievement.