Measuring math anxiety in Italian college and high school students: Validity, reliability and gender invariance of the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS)

By Caterina Primi, Chiara Busdraghi, Carlo Tomasetto, Kinga Morsanyi, Francesca Chiesi. 2014

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Abstract Given that the ability to manage numbers is essential in a modern society, mathematics anxiety – which has been demonstrated to have unfortunate consequences in terms of mastery of math – has become a subject of increasing interest, and the need to accurately measure it has arisen. One of the widely employed scales to measure math anxiety is the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) (Hopko, Mahadevan, Bare & Hunt, 2003). The first aim of the present paper was to confirm the factor structure of the AMAS when administered to Italian high school and college students, and to test the invariance of the scale across educational levels. Additionally, we assessed the reliability and validity of the Italian version of the scale. Finally, we tested the invariance of the AMAS across genders. The overall findings provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the AMAS when administered to Italian students.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Learning environment, attitudes and anxiety across the transition from primary to secondary school mathematics (2019, background): “…480 high-school and pre-university students and their mathematics teachers in Iran, Al Mutawah (2015) with 1,352 grade 8-11 students in Bahrain, Primi et al. (2014) with 215 high-school students and 249 first- and second-year university psychology students in Tuscany, Italy, and a Turkish…”
Math anxiety, intelligence, and performance in mathematics: Insights from the German adaptation of the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS-G) (2018, background): “Moreover, while most previous MA questionnaires have been tested only for English-speaking students, the AMAS has been evaluated in different language, including Iranian (Vahedi & Farrokhi, 2011), Italian (Primi et al., 2014), and Polish (Cipora, Szczygiel, Willmes, & Nuerk, 2015).”
Psychometric properties of the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) in Italian primary school children (2017, methodology): “Indeed, in the study of Primi et al. (2014), the two-factor structure and the gender invariance across the subscales (evidence already present in the literature, see Eden et al., 2013) have been evaluated in high school and university students.”