Ashcraft, M.H. and K.S. Ridley (2005), Math anxiety and its cognitive consequences, in J.I.D. Campbell (ed.), Handbook of Mathematical Cognition, (pp. 315-327) Psychology Press, New York.
Bai, H., Wang, L.S., Pan, W. and Frey, M (2009). Measuring mathematics anxiety: psychometric analysis of a bidimensional affective scale. Journal of Instructional psychology, 36(3), 185-193.
Harackicwitz, J.M., Barron, K.E., Tauer, J.M., Carter, S.M., & Elliot, A.J. (2000). Short-term and long-term consequences of achievement goals: Predicting interest and performance over time. Journal of Educational Psychology, 92, 316-330.
Cates, G. L., & Rhymer, K. N. (2003). Examining the relationship between mathematics anxiety and mathematics performance: An instructional hierarchy perspective. Journal of Behavioral Education, 12 , 23-34.
Jackson, C., & Leffingwell, R. (1999). The role of instructors in creating math anxiety in students from kindergarten through college. Mathematics Teacher, 92(7), 583-587.
Lyons, I.M. and S.L. Beilock (2012),“When math hurts: math anxiety predicts pain network activation in anticipation of doing math”, Plus ONE, 7(10), 1-6.
Ma, X. and J.M. Xu (2004), “The causal ordering of mathematics anxiety and mathematics achievement: a longitudinal panel analysis”, Journal of Adolescence, 27(2), 165-179.
Ma, X. (1999), “A meta-analysis of the relationship between anxiety toward mathematics and achievement in mathematics”, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 30(5), pp. 520-540.
OECD (2013). PISA 2012 Results: Ready to Learn – Students’ Engagement, Drive and Self-Beliefs (Volume III), PISA, OECD Publishing.
Wigfield, A., Battle, A., Keller, L. B., & Eccles, J. S. (2002). Sex differences in motivation, self-concept, career aspiration, and career choice: implications for cognitive development. In A. McGillicuddy-De Lisi & R. De Lisi (Eds.), Biology, society, and behavior: The development of sex differences in cognition (pp. 93-124). Westport, CT: Ablex.
Zeidner, M. and G. Matthews (2011), Anxiety 101, Springer, New York.