Beliefs, Anxiety, and Avoiding Failure in Mathematics

Table 6

541
×203
Age	Sample	Percentage of correct answers	Percentage of “no attempts”
13 y	191	15.2	40.8
14 y	225	27.1	22.2
15 y	220	38.2	16.8
16–19 y	307	33.2	32.6
20–29 y	160	33.1	34.4
30–39 y	108	32.4	33.3
40–49 y	129	57.4	16.3
50–59 y	88	52.3	13.6