Children's Relation Between Enjoyment and Value of Arithmetic.

Abstract

In the previous paper (ITO, 1980), we have dealt with results of four attitude scales of 6th grade elementary school children toward arithmetic in Japan. The results of that study have led to conclude that four attitude scales (Dutton Attitude Scale, Aiken Attitude Scale, McCallen and Brown's SD, Anttonen's SD) measure a general psychological dimension of "enjoyment of arithmetic" fairly well. In the present paper, we deal with children's relation between enjoyment and value of arithmetic. The value scale toward arithmetic developed by Aiken (1974) was administered to 79 elementary school children. This paper came to a conclusion that enjoyment and value are independent and significant dimensions of the attitudes toward arithmetic held by elementary school children.