Math anxiety and deductive reasoning as factors in career appraisal
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2006-10-31T13:04:10Z
Authors
Herman, Brent Harley
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Abstract
The following thesis explores the variables of math anxiety, deductive reasoning and
career appraisal. This dissertation investigates whether there is a relationship between
math anxiety and deductive reasoning. A relationship is found to exist between these
two variables and the relationship is of an indirectly proportional nature. As a result,
when “math anxiety is high, deductive reasoning is low” and visa viz. 74 participants
were used in this research study to assess whether their appraisal of various careers
differed or were homogenous in nature. This thesis discusses how various careers
were appraised heterogeneously and others homogenously between people with
different levels of math anxiety and deductive reasoning. This phenomenon is also
explained through the possibility of extraneous factors, influencing these results.
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Student Number : 0001241N -
M Industrial Psychology dissertation -
School of Human and Community Development -
Faculty of Humanities
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math anxiety, deductive reasoning, career appraisal