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Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals
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This study aimed to investigate whether the ordinal judgments of high math anxious (HMA) and low math-anxious (LMA) individuals differ. Two groups of 20 participants with extreme scores on the Shortened Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (sMARS) had to decide whether a triplet of numbers was presented in ascending order. Triplets could contain one-digit or two-digit numbers and be formed by consecutive numbers (counting condition), numbers with a constant distance of two or three (balanced) or numbers with variable distances between them (neutral). All these triplets were also presented unordered: sequence order in these trials could be broken at the second (D2) or third (D3) number. A reverse distance effect (worse performance for ordered balanced than for counting trials) of equal size was found in both anxiety groups. However, HMA participants made more judgment errors than their LMA peers when they judged one-digit counting ordered triplets. This effect was related to worse performance of HMA individuals on a symmetry span test and might be related to group differences on working memory. Importantly, HMAs were less accurate than LMA participants at rejecting unordered D2 sequences. This result is interpreted in terms of worse cognitive flexibility in HMA individuals.
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COLOMÉ, Àngels, NÚÑEZ PEÑA, María isabel. Processing of ordinal information in math-anxious individuals. _Frontiers in Psychology_. 2021. Vol. 12, núm. 566614. [consulta: 15 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 1664-1078. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/184292]