Defining Adult Math Anxiety Adult math anxiety (AMA) is a specific psychological phenomenon characterized by feelings of tension, apprehension, dread, or fear when encountering mathematical concepts, tasks, or problems, both in academic and everyday life settings. Unlike general anxiety disorder, AMA is domain-specific, triggered primarily by the anticipation or execution of numerical processing. This distress […]
Introduction and Definition of Mathematics Occupational Self-Efficacy Mathematics occupational self-efficacy (MOS-E) is a specialized construct derived from Albert Bandura’s broader social cognitive theory, specifically tailored to assess an individual’s conviction in their ability to successfully execute tasks and roles that require significant mathematical and quantitative reasoning skills within a professional context. Unlike general academic self-efficacy, […]