Mathematical Anxiety and Attention Data from a Spatial Flanker Task

20.6 KB of research data investigating the relationship between math anxiety and attention. The dataset, authored by Sarit Ashkenazi and last updated in May 2026, contains results from a spatial flanker task using negative, neutral, and mathematical picture distractors. It includes both verbal and nonverbal measures of math anxiety.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the location congruity effect based on verbal math anxiety scores.
• Investigating the impact of negative distractors on task performance based on nonverbal math anxiety levels.
• Modeling the relationship between self-reported and picture-rated measures of math anxiety.
• Studying attentional disengagement biases in response to emotional stimuli.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for reuse.
• Research design includes both verbal (self-report) and nonverbal (picture rating) measures of math anxiety.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Sarit Ashkenazi via figshare

Collection Method

Data likely gathered from a controlled experiment using a spatial flanker task with picture distractors.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 05:51:46; freshness should be verified.