Beliefs, Anxiety, and Avoiding Failure in Mathematics

Table 8

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Age	Sample	Percentage of correct answers	Percentage of “no attempts”
13 y	191	41.9	36.1
14 y	225	47.6	29.8
15 y	220	45.5	32.3
16–19 y	307	38.1	46.0
20–29 y	160	31.2	45.6
40–49 y	129	55.8	26.4