A large field study of children in first and second grade explored how parents' anxiety about math relates to their children's math achievement. The goal of the study was to better understand why some students perform worse in math than others. We tested whether parents' math anxiety predicts their children's math achievement across the school year. We found that when parents are more math anxi...

Students' Anxiety in Reading Aloud at MTs Negeri 3 Bolaang Mongondow Timur was a study that aimed to find out what factors influence students anxiety reading aloud. This employed descriptive qualitative method with approach. The participants were 15 VIII-1 class of Timur-Sulawesi Utara. Furthermore, the data analysed and portrayed into charts, then discussed existed theories. result research re...

OBJECTIVE To measure the effects of parents giving massage therapy to their children with cystic fibrosis to reduce anxiety in parents and their children and to improve the children's mood and peak air flow readings. METHODS Twenty children (5-12 years old) with cystic fibrosis and their parents were randomly assigned to a massage therapy or a reading control group. Parents in the treatment g...

Anxiety sensitivity, a fear of anxiety-related symptoms, has been associated with a heightened experience of pain, especially within women. The majority of experimental studies investigating this association have relied heavily on the cold pressor technique as a means of pain induction, limiting the generalisability of results. The aim of the current study was to extend previous research by usi...

The paper contains a report on the investigation of the the relationship between gender differences and reading comprehension at secondary level in China. Another objective was to discover the effective reading strategies for Chinese secondary school students and instructions for Chinese English teachers. A brief review of literature on the previous research on gender differences in second lang...