{"id":126215,"date":"2021-08-14T07:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T14:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/a-poorer-father-child-relationship-predicts-increased-math-anxiety-in-children-one-year-later"},"modified":"2021-08-14T07:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T14:22:48","slug":"a-poorer-father-child-relationship-predicts-increased-math-anxiety-in-children-one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/a-poorer-father-child-relationship-predicts-increased-math-anxiety-in-children-one-year-later","title":{"rendered":"A poorer father-child relationship predicts increased math anxiety in children one year later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-poorer-father-child-relationship-predicts-increased-math-anxiety-in-children-one-year-later.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to findings published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1041608021000534\"><em>Learning and Individual Differences<\/em><\/a>, a secure bond between father and child is particularly important for children\u2019s development of coping skills related to mathematics. The longitudinal study found that the father-child bond predicted children\u2019s math anxiety one year later, while the mother-child bond did not.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cmath anxiety\u201d is used to describe fear and apprehension surrounding math and can occur in children and adults alike. Math anxiety can arise in response to any situation that requires mathematics \u2014 from solving a math problem at school to calculating the tip at a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Previous studies have uncovered parental factors that play a role in the development of math anxiety among children \u2014 for example, parents\u2019 use of math at home with their children. There is also evidence that that the quality of the parent-child relationship influences math anxiety among children, but until now, no study had teased apart the specific roles of the mother-child versus father-child bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to findings published in Learning and Individual Differences, a secure bond between father and child is particularly important for children\u2019s development of coping skills related to mathematics. The longitudinal study found that the father-child bond predicted children\u2019s math anxiety one year later, while the mother-child bond did not. The term \u201cmath anxiety\u201d is used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}