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Direct linkThums, Kathrin; Artelt, Cordula; Wolter, Ilka – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
This study aims at exploring gender differences in text-type-specific reading competences via readers' gender-specific reading preferences. Women were expected to read more often for the sake of entertainment (entertainment preference), whereas men were expected to read more often to gain information (information preference). We further assumed…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Recreational Reading, Gender Differences, Preferences
Wicht, Alexandra; Rammstedt, Beatrice; Lechner, Clemens M. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
This study aims to illuminate factors that explain changes in literacy skills across up to six years of adulthood, using data from two waves of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS; N = 4,359). More specifically, we gauge the relative importance of three groups of factors that previous research and theorizing have highlighted as…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Literacy, Prediction, German
