Table 3 Multiple linear regression models predicting attitude components
| Â | Outcome variable | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Affect | Cognitive competence | Value | Difficulty | Interest | Effort | |||||||
Explanatory variable | β (SE) | p-value | β (SE) | p-value | β (SE) | p-value | β (SE) | p-value | β (SE) | p-value | β (SE) | p-value |
Female sex (reference male) | -0.38 (0.22) | 0.09 | -0.24 (0.19) | 0.20 | 0.01 (0.18) | 0.95 | -0.05 (0.16) | 0.75 | -0.19 (0.24) | 0.44 | 0.03 (0.18) | 0.88 |
Irish nationality (reference non-Irish students) | -0.48 (0.22) | 0.04 | -0.59 (0.19) | 0.003 | -0.36 (0.18) | 0.048 | -0.47 (0.16) | 0.004 | -0.23 (0.24) | 0.36 | -0.19 (0.19) | 0.30 |
Older age group (reference students aged < 25) | -0.07 (0.23) | 0.76 | -0.06 (0.20) | 0.75 | -0.03 (0.19) | 0.87 | -0.47 (0.17) | 0.006 | 0.27 (0.26) | 0.29 | -0.29 (0.20) | 0.14 |
Previous modules taken (reference none) | 0.09 (0.31) | 0.77 | 0.39 (0.27) | 0.16 | 0.04 (0.27) | 0.89 | 0.05 (0.23) | 0.82 | 0.06 (0.35) | 0.86 | -0.07 (0.27) | 0.79 |
Perception of performance in mathematics in the past | 0.36 (0.07) | <0.001 | 0.44 (0.06) | <0.001 | 0.12 (0.06) | 0.05 | 0.21 (0.05) | <0.001 | 0.24 (0.08) | 0.005 | -0.04 (0.06) | 0.56 |
Measure of goodness of fit (R 2 ) | 0.25 | 0.40 | 0.04 | 0.26 | 0.06 | 0.03 | ||||||