People’s fear and anxiety about doing math – over and above actual math ability – can be an impediment to their math achievement. We show that when the math anxious individuals are female elementary school teachers, their math anxiety carries negative consequences for the math achievement of their female students. Early elementary school teachers in the U.S. are almost exclusively female (> 90%...

BACKGROUND Anxiety symptoms are relatively common among children and adolescents and can interfere with functioning. The prevalence of anxiety and the relationship between anxiety and school performance were examined among elementary, middle, and high school students. METHODS Samples of elementary (N = 131, age 8-10 years), middle (N = 267, age 11-13 years), and high school (N = 80, age 14-16...

objectives: it has been noted that stuttering is more prevalent in bilinguals than in monolinguals. the similarities of the languages involved have been mentioned to justify the difference between stuttering prevalence among bilingual and monolingual speakers. the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of language similarities on prevalence of stuttering among kurdish-farsi bilingual st...