Table 2.
Association between Math Anxiety, Numerical and Cognitive Indices.
| Domain | Math Anxiety (MA) | Numerical representation (PN) | Math Achievement (WJ) | BRIEF indices | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inhibitory Control (INHIBIT) | Attentional Control (SHIFT) | Online Memory (WORKING MEMORY) | |||||
| Math Anxiety (MA) | Pearson’s r | — | −0.112 | −0.302 | 0.278 | 0.320 | 0.313 |
| p-value | — | 0.351 | 0.008* | 0.021 | 0.007* | 0.009* | |
| Numerical Representation (PN) | Pearson’s r | — | 0.384 | −0.189 | −0.155 | −0.321 | |
| p-value | — | 0.002 | 0.138 | 0.226 | 0.010 | ||
| Math Achievement (WJ) | Pearson’s r | — | −0.197 | −0.127 | −0.465 | ||
| p-value | — | 0.104 | 0.299 | <0.001 | |||
| Inhibitory Control (INHIBIT) | Pearson’s r | — | 0.452 | 0.483 | |||
| p-value | — | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||
| Attentional Control (SHIFT) | Pearson’s r | — | 0.602 | ||||
| p-value | — | <0.001 | |||||
| Online Memory (WORKING MEMORY) | Pearson’s r | — | |||||
| p-value | — | ||||||
Note. p-values reflect two-tailed partial correlation analyses, where age and biological sex was held constant. Degrees of freedom (df) = 69 for MA * PN; df = 75 for MA * WJ; df = 67 for all BRIEF indices. * indicates associations that survive Bonferroni corrected alpha for the 5 primary analyses of interest (first row; Bonferroni corrected alpha, p < 0.01). BCa Bootstrapped 95% CI (10,000 samples) for statistically significant, primary MA analyses: MA * WJ lower −0.455 upper −0.133; MA * SHIFT lower 0.074, upper 0.512; MA * WORKING MEMORY lower 0.052, upper 0.529.