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Anxiety and inattention as predictors of achievement in early elementary school children

The objective of this study was to examine the relations among anxiety, inattention, and math/reading achievement, as well as the mediating/moderating role of inattention in the anxiety-achievement association both concurrently and longitudinally. Participants included 161 ethnically diverse childre...

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Published in:Anxiety, stress, and coping stress, and coping, 2013-07, Vol.26 (4), p.391-410
Main Authors: Grills-Taquechel, Amie E., Fletcher, Jack M., Vaughn, Sharon R., Denton, Carolyn A., Taylor, Pat
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Achievement
Affectivity. Emotion
Anxiety
Anxiety - psychology
attention
Attention - physiology
Attention deficit disorders. Hyperactivity
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child clinical studies
Educational Measurement - methods
Educational Measurement - statistics & numerical data
Educational psychology
Educational Status
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
inattention
learning
Learning - physiology
Male
Mathematics
Medical sciences
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
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Pupil and student. Academic achievement and failure
Reading
Separation anxiety
Students - psychology
Students - statistics & numerical data
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