Anxious Women or Complacent Men? Anxiety of Statistics in a Sample of UK Sociology Undergraduates

Autor/inn/en	Ralston, Kevin; Gorton, Victoria; MacInnes, John; Gayle, Vernon; Crow, Graham
Titel	Anxious Women or Complacent Men? Anxiety of Statistics in a Sample of UK Sociology Undergraduates
Quelle	In: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24 (2021) 1, S.79-91 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ralston, Kevin) ORCID (Gorton, Victoria) ORCID (Gayle, Vernon) ORCID (Crow, Graham)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1364-5579
DOI	10.1080/13645579.2020.1761186
Schlagwörter	Statistics; Anxiety; Negative Attitudes; Mathematics Skills; Measurement Techniques; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Males; Females; Young Adults; Undergraduate Students; Sociology; Social Science Research; Statistical Analysis; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Statistik; Angst; Negative Fixierung; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Messtechnik; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Weibliches Geschlecht; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Soziologie; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Ausland
Abstract	One of the most commonly identified obstacles in the learning-teaching of quantitative material is statistics anxiety. Of the factors analysed in relation to statistics anxiety, age and gender have received a substantial proportion of the research focus. Yet there is limited work that systematically examines the possibility of an interrelationship, or interaction, between age and gender and reported statistics anxiety. This article aims to directly address this gap in the research by examining this interaction. A secondary analysis of data gathered from across 34 institutions in the UK is undertaken. The research presented is the first to examine this issue using a multivariate-modelling framework in a UK context. Although the international literature tends to indicate that women disproportionately experience statistics anxiety, the findings here show women have a moderate likelihood of reporting anxiety. There is a group of unworried young men who are likely to require pedagogical attention. Indeed, it may be that the existence a group of complacent young men have women seem anxious by comparison. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01