Cosso Jimena, Finders Jennifer K, Duncan Robert J, Schmitt Sara A, Purpura David J
Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16803, USA.
Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2023 Mar;227:105578. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105578. Epub 2022 Nov 17.
Evidence suggests that parents' math anxiety moderates the association between parents' help in mathematics homework and first graders' mathematics skills. Understanding whether similar associations are evident in younger children, in regard to the home numeracy environment (HNE) is essential, given that early math skills are strong predictors of later academic outcomes, and children's skills prior to kindergarten are fostered principally by their parents. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the association and interaction between the HNE and parents' math anxiety related to preschool children's numeracy performance. Participants were 121 parent-child dyads. Results from hierarchical multiple regression models demonstrated that parents' math anxiety and the HNE, included as separate predictors of children's math skills, were not statistically significant. However, the interaction between HNE and parents' math anxiety was statistically significant, such that the positive association between HNE and children's numeracy skills emerged when parents felt less anxious about math. These findings highlight the importance of accounting for parents' math anxiety when exploring the home influences on children's numeracy skills.
有证据表明，父母的数学焦虑会调节父母在孩子数学家庭作业方面给予的帮助与一年级学生数学技能之间的关联。鉴于早期数学技能是后期学业成绩的有力预测指标，且儿童在幼儿园之前的技能主要由其父母培养，了解在家庭数学环境（HNE）方面，类似的关联在幼儿中是否明显至关重要。因此，本研究的目的是考察HNE与父母的数学焦虑之间的关联以及相互作用，这与学龄前儿童的数学表现有关。研究参与者为121对亲子二元组。分层多元回归模型的结果表明，作为儿童数学技能的独立预测因素，父母的数学焦虑和HNE在统计学上并不显著。然而，HNE与父母的数学焦虑之间的相互作用在统计学上是显著的，即当父母对数学的焦虑感较低时，HNE与儿童数学技能之间的正相关关系就会显现出来。这些发现凸显了在探索家庭对儿童数学技能的影响时，考虑父母数学焦虑的重要性。
