Pelegrina Santiago, Justicia-Galiano M José, Martín-Puga M Eva, Linares Rocío
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2020 Apr 9;11:669. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00669. eCollection 2020.
This study aimed to determine whether math anxiety was related to working memory (WM) updating performance and, specifically, to the retrieval and substitution components of updating. A set of WM updating (WMU) tasks that involve different retrieval and substitution requirements were administered to 114 university students. In addition, participants completed a math anxiety assessment on two occasions: 1-2 weeks before and immediately prior to task administration to increase the likelihood of observing the relationship between math anxiety and updating performance. The results showed a relationship between math anxiety scores and updating performance. Math anxious individuals took longer and made more errors, especially on tasks that required retrieving information from WM. These results suggest that math anxious individuals are less efficient when it comes to accessing numerical information in WM. Consequently, they may struggle with math-related tasks that involve retrieving numerical information from WM.
本研究旨在确定数学焦虑是否与工作记忆（WM）更新表现相关，特别是与更新的检索和替换成分相关。对114名大学生进行了一组涉及不同检索和替换要求的工作记忆更新（WMU）任务。此外，参与者在两个时间点完成了数学焦虑评估：任务实施前1 - 2周和紧接任务实施前，以增加观察数学焦虑与更新表现之间关系的可能性。结果显示数学焦虑得分与更新表现之间存在关联。数学焦虑个体花费的时间更长且错误更多，尤其是在需要从工作记忆中检索信息的任务上。这些结果表明，数学焦虑个体在获取工作记忆中的数字信息时效率较低。因此，他们可能在涉及从工作记忆中检索数字信息的数学相关任务中遇到困难。
