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Article: Psychometric properties of the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale.(Report)
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- The Psychological Record
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- September 22, 2007
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Interest in mathematics anxiety started with the observations of mathematics teachers in the early 1950s. In 1957, Dreger and Aiken introduced mathematics anxiety as a new term to describe students' attitudinal difficulties with mathematics. They defined it as "the presence of a syndrome of emotional reactions to arithmetic and mathematics" (p. 344).
Notwithstanding the difficulties in defining and measuring mathematics anxiety (Wood, 1988), several attempts have been made to assess it. Atkinson (1988) described three distinct periods in the measurement of mathematics anxiety. In the first period, most studies were merely the authors' opinions and did not employ ...