Parental Math Anxiety Is Associated With Negative Emotional Activation During Hypothetical Health Decision Making

Abstract: Dealing with numbers is an inherent aspect of interpreting health statistics, and negative emotions may interfere with medical decision making. One emotionally charged decision-making context is parents making medical decisions for their children. Knowing which factors–such as anxiety specific to math contexts–are associated with parents’ negative emotions during the decision-making process may inform ways to better support families as they make critical medical decisions. The current study involved secondary data analyses of an experiment with 249 parents. Participants were randomly assigned to make hypothetical health decisions for themselves, their child, or a stranger. We examined which domain-specific math (e.g., math anxiety), domain general (i.e., need for cognition), and demographic variables (e.g., parents’ health-care coverage) were associated with ratings of negative emotional activation immediately after making the decisions. Results indicated that two factors were sign.... https://jnc.psychopen.eu/index.php/jnc/article/view/11657

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Parental Math Anxiety Is Associated With Negative Emotional Activation During Hypothetical Health Decision Making ; volume:10 ; day:10 ; month:09 ; year:2024 ; Journal of numerical cognition ; 10 (10.09.2024)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Meanor, Alyvia ; Scheibe, Daniel A. ; Fitzsimmons, Charles J. ; Taber, Jennifer M. ; Woodbury, Lauren H. ; Thompson, Clarissa A.

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jnc.11657
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410120509320.210020360458
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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