Table 5.
Differences in profile sizes across the Finnish, Korean, and American samples.
| MA profile | Sample |
Mean MA score |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIN (N = 4746) | KOR (N = 2999) | USA (N = 3258) | a1 | a2 | a3 | a4 | a5 | |
| Low MA | 35.29% | 6.67% | 25.81% | 1.73 | 1.26 | 1.34 | 1.34 | 1.67 |
| Mid MA | 54.30% | 71.69% | 52.24% | 2.81 | 2.08 | 2.18 | 2.18 | 2.86 |
| High MA | 10.41% | 21.64% | 21.95% | 3.58 | 3.25 | 3.08 | 3.06 | 3.54 |
a1 = “I often worry that it will be difficult for me in mathematics classes,” a2 = “I get very tense when I have to do mathematics homework,” a3 = “I get very nervous doing mathematics problems,” a4 = “I feel helpless when doing a mathematics problem,” a5 = “I worry that I will get poor grades in mathematics.”