Attitudes to Mathematics in Primary School Children

Table 4

Entry-type multiple regressions on British abilities scales basic number skills standard score and the attitude variables: Grade 3 alone.

	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	39	39	39	39	39
𝑅^2	0.01	0.318	0.281	0.204	0.264
𝐹	0.095	4.552	3.45	2.503	3.496
𝑃	0.984	0.004**	0.017*	0.058	0.016*
Predictors:
Basic number skills:
𝛽	—	0.019	−0.016	−0.011	0.08
𝑡	—	−0.145	−0.112	−0.074	0.583
𝑃	—	0.885	0.911	0.942	0.563
Self-rating
𝛽	−0.028	—	0.414	−0.054	0.417
𝑡	−0.145	—	2.035	−0.314	2.74
𝑃	0.885	—	0.01*	0.755	0.009**
Liking
𝛽	−0.021	0.382	—	0.322	−0.121
𝑡	−0.112	2.707	—	2.035	−0.764
𝑃	0.911	0.01*	—	0.049*	0.449
(Non-)Anxiety
𝛽	−0.013	−0.047	0.298	—	0.288
𝑡	−0.074	−0.314	2.035	—	1.957
𝑃	0.942	0.785	0.049*	—	0.058
(Non-)Unhappiness
𝛽	0.108	0.387	−0.122	0.311	—
𝑡	0.583	2.74	−0.764	1.957	—
𝑃	0.563	0.009**	0.449	0.058	—

 ^∗𝑃<0.05  ^∗∗𝑃<0.01 .