The mediating role of working memory and mathematical anxiety in predicting spatial visual processing based on mathematical self-efficacy and creativity

The study of factors related to spatial visual processing is considered as a suitable framework for examining the relationship and interaction of emotions and cognition, which is a prominent feature of cognitive science research.

The aim of this study was to mediate the role of working memory and mathematical anxiety in predicting spatial visual processing based on mathematical self-efficacy and creativity of female elementary school students.

The present study was a correlational analysis of the path. The statistical population of all female students in Tehran in the academic year 1397-98 and the statistical sample consisted of 477 fifth grade students who were selected based on the number of variables by cluster random sampling. Participants were Torrance Form A (1972) Non-Verbal Creativity Questionnaire, Plaque and Placer Mathematical Anxiety Scale (1982), Active Memory Test for Children (2006), Liu, Coeralla, and May Mathematical Self-Efficacy (2009), and Binet Spatial Visual Processing Test (2003). ) Completed. Pearson correlation and path analysis were used to analyze the data.

Based on the results obtained in this model, 0.86 variance of visual-spatial processing variable was explained. Mathematical self-efficacy variable only indirectly mediated by working memory variables on spatial visual processing and mediated by mathematical anxiety with spatial visual processing showed a positive relationship. Also, the working memory variable directly showed a positive relationship with creativity. Creativity affects visual processing only through the variable of active memory. Mathematical self-efficacy and creativity have a positive relationship with spatial visual processing mediated by working memory of female students (p <0.154). Mathematical self-efficacy and creativity are not related to spatial visual processing mediated by female studentschr('39') mathematical anxiety (p< 0/001).

Based on mathematical self-efficacy, the spatial visual processing variable can be explained.