Attitudes to Mathematics in Primary School Children

Table 5

Entry-type multiple regressions on British abilities scales basic number skills standard score and the attitude variables: Grade 5 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	40	40	40	40	40
𝑅^2	0.31	0.337	0.275	0.281	0.103
F	4.495	5.084	3.794	3.903	1.154
P	0.004**	0.002**	0.01*	0.009**	0.346
Predictors:
Basic number skills	—
β	—	0.522	−0.157	−0.15	−0.05
t	—	3.983	−0.979	−0.939	−0.277
P	—	0.000**	0.334	0.353	0.784
Self-rating
β	−0.028	—	0.135	0.133	0.243
t	−0.145	—	0.821	0.813	1.354
P	0.885	—	0.416	0.421	0.183
Liking
β	−0.021	0.123	—	0.436	0.087
t	−0.112	0.821	—	3.082	0.498
P	0.911	0.416	—	0.004**	0.621
(Non)anxiety
β	−0.013	0.122	0.44	—	0.129
t	−0.074	0.813	3.082	—	0.735
P	0.942	0.421	0.004**	—	0.467
(Non)unhappiness
β	0.108	0.18	0.021	0.103	—
t	0.583	1.354	0.498	0.735	—
P	0.563	0.183	0.621	0.467	—

 ^∗𝑃<0.05  ^∗∗𝑃<0.01.