Cynthia M Fioriti, Raeanne N Martell, Richard J Daker, Eleanor P Malone, H Moriah Sokolowski, Adam E Green, Susan C Levine, Erin A Maloney, Gerardo Ramirez, Ian M Lyons
Women reliably perform worse than men on measures of spatial ability, particularly those involving mental rotation. At the same time, females also report higher levels of spatial anxiety than males. What remains unclear, however, is whether and in what ways gender differences in these cognitive and affective aspects of spatial processing may be interrelated. Here, we tested for robust gender differences across six different datasets in spatial ability and spatial anxiety (N = 1257, 830 females). Further, we tested for bidirectional mediation effects...
March 4, 2024: Journal of Intelligence