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Article: The space-math link in preschool boys and girls: Importance of mental transformation, targeting accuracy, and spatial anxiety
Title | The space-math link in preschool boys and girls: Importance of mental transformation, targeting accuracy, and spatial anxiety |
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Keywords | anxiety gender and sex mathematics preschool spatial abilities |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)2044-835X |
Citation | British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2017, v. 35 n. 2, p. 249-266 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Spatial abilities are pertinent to mathematical competence, but evidence of the space-math link has largely been confined to older samples and intrinsic spatial abilities (e.g., mental transformation). The roles of gender and affective factors are also unclear. This study examined the correlations between counting ability, mental transformation, and targeting accuracy in 182 Hong Kong preschoolers, and whether these relationships were weaker at higher spatial anxiety levels. Both spatial abilities related with counting similarly for boys and girls. Targeting accuracy also mediated the male advantage in counting. Interestingly, spatial anxiety moderated the space-math links, but differently for boys and girls. For boys, spatial abilities were irrelevant to counting at high anxiety levels; for girls, the role of anxiety on the space-math link is less clear. Results extend the evidence base of the space-math link to include an extrinsic spatial ability (targeting accuracy) and have implications for intervention programmes. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/236493 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.864 |
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dc.contributor.author | Wong, WI | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-25T00:54:10Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-25T00:54:10Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2017, v. 35 n. 2, p. 249-266 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0261-510X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/236493 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Spatial abilities are pertinent to mathematical competence, but evidence of the space-math link has largely been confined to older samples and intrinsic spatial abilities (e.g., mental transformation). The roles of gender and affective factors are also unclear. This study examined the correlations between counting ability, mental transformation, and targeting accuracy in 182 Hong Kong preschoolers, and whether these relationships were weaker at higher spatial anxiety levels. Both spatial abilities related with counting similarly for boys and girls. Targeting accuracy also mediated the male advantage in counting. Interestingly, spatial anxiety moderated the space-math links, but differently for boys and girls. For boys, spatial abilities were irrelevant to counting at high anxiety levels; for girls, the role of anxiety on the space-math link is less clear. Results extend the evidence base of the space-math link to include an extrinsic spatial ability (targeting accuracy) and have implications for intervention programmes. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)2044-835X | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | British Journal of Developmental Psychology | - |
dc.rights | British Journal of Developmental Psychology. Copyright © John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | - |
dc.rights | Preprint: This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [FULL CITE], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the DOI]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Postprint: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [FULL CITE], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the DOI]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Special Statement for Preprint only Before publication: 'This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in [The Journal of Pathology] Copyright © ([year]) ([Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland])'. After publication: the preprint notice should be amended to follows: 'This is a preprint of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the Contribution as published in the print edition of the Journal]' For Cochrane Library/ Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, add statement & acknowledgement : ‘This review is published as a Cochrane Review in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 20XX, Issue X. Cochrane Reviews are regularly updated as new evidence emerges and in response to comments and criticisms, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews should be consulted for the most recent version of the Review.’ Please include reference to the Review and hyperlink to the original version using the following format e.g. Authors. Title of Review. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 20XX, Issue #. Art. No.: CD00XXXX. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD00XXXX (insert persistent link to the article by using the URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD00XXXX) (This statement should refer to the most recent issue of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in which the Review published.) | - |
dc.subject | anxiety | - |
dc.subject | gender and sex | - |
dc.subject | mathematics | - |
dc.subject | preschool | - |
dc.subject | spatial abilities | - |
dc.title | The space-math link in preschool boys and girls: Importance of mental transformation, targeting accuracy, and spatial anxiety | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Wong, WI: iwwong@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Wong, WI=rp01774 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/bjdp.12161 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84992469951 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 270621 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 35 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 249 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 266 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000405227200006 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.relation.erratum | doi:10.1111/bjdp.12284 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0261-510X | - |