Table 3.
Pearson correlation matrix between mothers’ and children’s variables.
| YOS | ISEI | MS-HS | MS-T | Pre | Sup | Help | PressID | Mon | MTA | NTA | MCA | MA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Math fluency | 0.06 | -0.07 | 0.02 | -0.05 | -0.19 | -0.31 | -0.51** | -0.39* | -0.53** | -0.12 | -0.28 | -0.29 | -0.22 |
| Calculation | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.18 | -0.00 | -0.09 | -0.22 | -0.42* | -0.31 | -0.36* | -0.23 | -0.43* | -0.17 | -0.30 |
| AMAS | -0.09 | -0.19 | -0.33* | -0.10 | 0.00 | 0.21 | 0.28 | 0.19 | 0.23 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.19 | 0.17 |
| Intrinsic motivation | |||||||||||||
| Reading | -0.17 | -0.14 | 0.10 | 0.17 | 0.01 | -0.17 | 0.04 | 0.26 | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0.04 | 0.13 |
| Math | -0.02 | -0.02 | 0.19 | 0.13 | -0.00 | -0.18 | -0.01 | 0.21 | -0.01 | -0.25 | -0.29 | -0.43* | -0.32* |
| Science | 0.28 | -0.01 | 0.17 | 0.14 | -0.08 | -0.29 | 0.18 | 0.16 | 0.07 | 0.00 | -0.08 | -0.07 | -0.03 |
| General | -0.11 | 0.07 | 0.24 | 0.11 | 0.02 | -0.05 | 0.12 | 0.23 | -0.01 | -0.27 | -0.22 | -0.36* | -0.30 |
| Congruency effect | |||||||||||||
| Single digit | -0.12 | -0.11 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.15 | 0.12 | -0.01 | -0.01 | -0.06 | 0.10 | 0.47** | -0.02 | 0.18 |
| Double digit | 0.02 | 0.20 | 0.26 | -0.05 | 0.35* | -0.02 | -0.03 | -0.13 | -0.19 | -0.14 | 0.04 | 0.18 | -0.04 |
| Triple digit | 0.37* | 0.36* | 0.07 | -0.26 | -0.11 | 0.06 | 0.19 | -0.06 | 0.06 | -0.21 | -0.18 | -0.09 | -0.20 |
| Math word | 0.03 | -0.19 | -0.13 | -0.02 | -0.38* | -0.30 | -0.22 | -0.10 | -0.08 | 0.11 | 0.03 | -0.05 | 0.07 |
| Neutral word | 0.06 | -0.01 | 0.17 | 0.20 | 0.15 | -0.02 | 0.44* | 0.41* | 0.31 | 0.08 | 0.22 | 0.24 | 0.16 |
YOS, mothers’ years of schooling; ISEI, the International Socioeconomic Index (Ganzeboom and Treiman, 1996); MS-HS, mothers’ self-reports of their math skills in high school; MS-T, mothers’ self-reports of their math skills at present; Pre, maternal pressure; Sup, maternal psychological support; PressID, maternal press for intellectual development; Mon, maternal monitoring; MTA, mothers’ math test anxiety; NTA, mothers’ numerical task anxiety; MCA, mothers’ math course anxiety; MA, mothers’ math anxiety; AMAS, the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (Hopko et al., 2003); Congruency Effect, the difference between reaction time in the incongruent and congruent conditions in the numerical dot-probe task (Rubinsten et al., 2015). ∗p < 0.05, ∗∗p < 0.01 (one-tailed).