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. 2017 Nov 13;8:1939. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01939

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).