This study explored associations among children’s prior attitudes, prior mathematics knowledge, and frequency of digital game use, with children’s perceptions of game affordances, and transfer to out-of-game performance when interacting with digital math games, with respect to gender. Participants were 187 children (ages 8–12). An SEM mediation path analysis using MPLUS software showed significant direct effects for all pathways for all children, and significant indirect effects on all pathways for male children and five of six pathways for female children. More favorable attitudes, prior math knowledge, and perception of the helping affordances were associated with increased posttest performance, while increased frequency of digital game use and stronger perception of the hindering affordances was associated with decreased posttest performance. The model showed stronger connections for male children between frequency of digital game use, prior mathematics knowledge, and hindering affordances to the posttest, while female children showed stronger connections between attitude and perception of helping affordances to the posttest.

本研究探讨了儿童先前的态度、先前的数学知识和数字游戏使用频率之间的关联，与儿童对游戏可供性的看法，以及在与数字数学游戏互动时转移到游戏外的表现，与性别有关。参与者是 187 名儿童（8-12 岁）。使用 MPLUS 软件进行的 SEM 中介路径分析显示，对所有儿童的所有路径都有显着的直接影响，对男孩的所有路径和女性儿童的 6 个路径中的 5 个都有显着的间接影响。更有利的态度、先前的数学知识和对帮助启示的感知与后测表现的增加有关，而数字游戏使用频率的增加和对阻碍启示的更强感知与后测表现的下降有关。