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  • 标题:Self-Regulation and Mathematics Performance in German and Iranian Students of More and Less Math-Related Fields of Study
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  • 作者:Parvin Nemati ; Caterina Gawrilow ; Hans-Christoph Nuerk
  • 期刊名称:Frontiers in Psychology
  • 电子版ISSN:1664-1078
  • 出版年度:2020
  • 卷号:11
  • 页码:489371-489383
  • DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.489371
  • 出版社:Frontiers Media
  • 摘要:Self-regulation is a multidimensional construct that is positively related to academic achievement, such as successful mathematics performance. However, this relation of self-regulation and mathematics performance has mainly been investigated in Western countries with similar cultural contexts, although self-regulation is assumed to be context-sensitive. Therefore, the present study investigated the relation of self-regulation and mathematics performance across two different countries (Germany vs. Iran) in college students. The relation of self-regulation and mathematics performance was expected to be weaker in students of math-related fields, such as Engineering/Informatics, as they are assumed to need less self-regulation to solve the mathematics problems than students of less math-related fields, such as Human Sciences. In total, 122 undergraduate students (German = 60; Iranian = 62) of Human Sciences or Engineering/Informatics participated in this study. We measured self-regulation with the Brief Self-Control Scale (Tangney et al., 2004) and mathematics performance with a complex multiplication test. Results showed that self-regulation did not predict multiplication performance in German or Iranian students, in general. However, when the field of study was considered, self-regulation predicted multiplication performance in the subgroup of German and Iranian students studying Human Sciences within each country. We conclude that cultural context does not seem to play a dominant role in moderating the relation between self-regulation and math performance, however, field of study and more generally familiarity with math may be an important factor to consider in single or cross-cultural studies. Copyright © 2020 Nemati, Gawrilow, Nuerk and Kühnhausen.
  • 关键词:cross-culture;field of study;mathematics;multiplication;self-regulation
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