Table 3.
Multiple linear regression models predicting attitude components
| |
Outcome variable |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Affect |
Cognitive competence |
Value |
Difficulty |
Interest |
Effort |
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| Explanatory variable | β (SE) | p-value | β (SE) | p-value | β (SE) | p-value | β (SE) | p-value | β (SE) | p-value | β (SE) | p-value |
| Female sex (reference male) |
-0.38 (0.22) |
0.09 |
-0.24 (0.19) |
0.20 |
0.01 (0.18) |
0.95 |
-0.05 (0.16) |
0.75 |
-0.19 (0.24) |
0.44 |
0.03 (0.18) |
0.88 |
| Irish nationality (reference non-Irish students) |
-0.48 (0.22) |
0.04 |
-0.59 (0.19) |
0.003 |
-0.36 (0.18) |
0.048 |
-0.47 (0.16) |
0.004 |
-0.23 (0.24) |
0.36 |
-0.19 (0.19) |
0.30 |
| Older age group (reference students aged < 25) |
-0.07 (0.23) |
0.76 |
-0.06 (0.20) |
0.75 |
-0.03 (0.19) |
0.87 |
-0.47 (0.17) |
0.006 |
0.27 (0.26) |
0.29 |
-0.29 (0.20) |
0.14 |
| Previous modules taken (reference none) |
0.09 (0.31) |
0.77 |
0.39 (0.27) |
0.16 |
0.04 (0.27) |
0.89 |
0.05 (0.23) |
0.82 |
0.06 (0.35) |
0.86 |
-0.07 (0.27) |
0.79 |
| Perception of performance in mathematics in the past |
0.36 (0.07) |
<0.001 |
0.44 (0.06) |
<0.001 |
0.12 (0.06) |
0.05 |
0.21 (0.05) |
<0.001 |
0.24 (0.08) |
0.005 |
-0.04 (0.06) |
0.56 |
| Measure of goodness of fit (R 2 ) | 0.25 | 0.40 | 0.04 | 0.26 | 0.06 | 0.03 | ||||||