Neural evidence for cognitive reappraisal as a strategy to alleviate the effects of math anxiety

Autor: Rachel G. Pizzie, Cassidy L. McDermott, David J. M. Kraemer, Tyler G Salem
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Male
emotion regulation
Adolescent
cognitive reappraisal
Cognitive Neuroscience
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AcademicSubjects/SCI01880
education
Emotions
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Original Manuscript
intraparietal sulcus
Anxiety
Amygdala
behavioral disciplines and activities
050105 experimental psychology
Mathematical anxiety
Cognitive reappraisal
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Young Adult
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Cognition
Intervention (counseling)
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Attention
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Apprehension
05 social sciences
fMRI
math anxiety
General Medicine
Fear
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Improved performance
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Feeling
Female
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
psychological phenomena and processes
Mathematics
Cognitive psychology
Zdroj: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
ISSN: 1749-5024
1749-5016
Popis: Math anxiety (MA) describes feelings of tension, apprehension and fear that interfere with math performance. High MA (HMA) is correlated with negative consequences, including lower math grades, and ultimately an avoidance of quantitative careers. Given these adverse consequences, it is essential to explore effective intervention strategies to reduce MA. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we investigated the efficacy of cognitive reappraisal as a strategy to alleviate the effects of MA. Cognitive reappraisal, an emotion regulation strategy, has been shown to decrease negative affect and amygdala responsivity to stimuli that elicit negative emotion. We compared a reappraisal strategy to participants’ natural strategy for solving math problems and analogies. We found that HMA individuals showed an increase in accuracy and a decrease in negative affect during the reappraisal condition as compared to the control condition. During math reappraise trials, increased activity in a network of regions associated with arithmetic correlated with improved performance for HMA individuals. These results suggest that increased engagement of arithmetic regions underlies the performance increases we identify in HMA students when they use reappraisal to augment their math performance. Overall, cognitive reappraisal is a promising strategy for enhancing math performance and reducing anxiety in math anxious individuals.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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