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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Educ Psychol. 2019 Mar 7;111(8):1447–1461. doi: 10.1037/edu0000355

Table 1.

Sex differences in means and correlation for the overall cross-sectional sample

Boys Girls

Measure M (SD) M (SD) d 1 2 3 5 6
1. Mathematical competence 101. 06 (15.21) 99.12 (14.31) .13 1.00 .10 .28b −.19b −.31b
2. English attitudes 4.74 (1.15) 5.18 (1.14) −.38a .00 1.00 .05 .07 .03
3. Mathematics attitudes 4.92 (1.07) 4.67 (1.09) .23a .26b .10 1.00 −.29b −.26b
5. Math anxiety evaluation 2.80 (0.94) 3.11 (1.01) −.31a −.05 .12 −.15b 1.00 .60b
6. Math anxiety learning 1.92 (0.82) 2.03 (0.81) −.14 −.23b .08 −.15b .55b 1.00

Note: d = (Mboys – Mgirls)/pooled SD.

a

= significant mean difference with Bonferroni corrected p value (.007). Correlations for boys are below the diagonal and above the diagonal for girls.

b

= significant with Bonferroni corrected p value (.0024).