Attitudes to Mathematics in Primary School Children

Table 3

Entry-type multiple regressions on British abilities scales basic number skills standard score and the attitude variables: whole group.

	Regression on Basic Number Skills standard score	Regression on Self-rating	Regression on Liking	Regression on (non-)Anxiety	Regression on (non-)Unhappiness
Degrees of freedom	4	4	4	4	4
Residual	84	84	84	84	84
𝑅^2	0.106	0.484	0.226	0.211	0.159
𝐹	2.502	6.414	6.148	5.631	3.96
𝑃	0.048*	0.000**	0.000**	0.000**	0.005**
Predictors:
Basic number skills	—
𝛽	—	0.286	−1.415	0.034	−0.047
t	—	2.973	−1.402	−0.333	−0.446
P	—	0.004**	0.164	0.74	0.657
Self-rating
β	0.333	—	0.236	0.021	0.306
t	2.973	—	2.219	0.191	2.795
P	0.004**	—	0.029*	0.849	0.006**
Liking			—
β	−0.163	0.234	—	0.368	0.006
t	−1.402	2.219	—	3.591	0.049
P	0.104	0.029*	—	0.001**	0.961
(Non-)Anxiety
β	0.039	0.021	0.361	—	0.212
t	0.333	0.191	3.591	—	1.919
P	0.74	0.849	0.001**	—	0.058
(Non-)Unhappiness
β	−0.05	0.278	0.005	0.198	—
t	−0.446	2.973	0.049	1.919	—
P	0.657	0.006**	0.961	0.058	—

 ^∗𝑃<0.05  ^∗∗𝑃<0.01.