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Direct linkMine Yildiz; Meryem Özdemir Cihan; Engin Kursun – Reading Psychology, 2024
This study investigated demographic profiles, reading characteristics and processes of good and poor young adult readers. Data were collected from 149 undergraduate students studying at a state university in Türkiye through a questionnaire set and eye-tracking experiments. Groups of this study - good and poor readers - were defined according to…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Reading, Foreign Countries, Reading Attitudes
Curkovic, Natalija; Krpanec, Eta – Reading Psychology, 2023
Studies find a deterioration in reading attitudes. This is worrying since research suggest that attitudes are key in developing reading comprehension. The aim of this study was, hence, to examine the relationship between the amount of school reading experience, beliefs about reading outcomes and reading attitudes. The theoretical framework was…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, High School Graduates, Foreign Countries
Winberg, Mikael; Tegmark, Mats; Vinterek, Monika; Alatalo, Tarja – Reading Psychology, 2022
As leisure-time reading among adolescents declines in the western world, stakeholders try to increase students' motivation for school-related reading. We examine the relationship of students' autonomous and controlled reading motivation with their amount and experiences of school-related reading in four school subjects, controlling for students'…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Reading Motivation, Affective Behavior, Student Experience
Harmon, Janis; Martinez, Miriam; Juarez, Lucinda; Wood, Karen; Simmerson, Lisa; Terrazas, Christopher – Reading Psychology, 2019
Given that much of the research on classroom libraries focus on elementary school classrooms, this study sought to examine classroom libraries at the middle school level. Access to books is especially important for middle school students given the persistent decline in reading engagement at this level. The research questions guiding this…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Classrooms, Libraries, Middle Schools
Wiescholek, Sabrina; Hilkenmeier, Johanna; Greiner, Christian; Buhl, Heike M. – Reading Psychology, 2018
Home literacy environment (HLE) makes an important contribution to children's reading acquisition in early years. Even though some research on children's perception exists, children's reports about HLE have been neglected. The present study focuses on N = 281 six-year-old's reports about HLE and its influences on literacy enjoyment, frequency, and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Family Environment, Reading Habits, Recreational Reading
Fives, Allyn – Reading Psychology, 2016
The current article examines what factors explained the success of a reading program delivered by older adult volunteers to at-risk early readers. The article also examines the direction of the relationship over time (both direct and mediated) between reading achievement, frequency of reading at home, and academic self-beliefs. Two hundred and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Early Reading
Peer reviewedShapiro, Jon; Whitney, Patricia – Reading Psychology, 1997
States that reading educators are becoming concerned with aliteracy and that research is only now focusing on reading habits. Studies 39 avid readers and non-avid readers to examine home and personal factors related to leisure reading habits. Discovers differences for some aspects of reading attitudes, for motivation, and for several home factors.…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Intermediate Grades, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
Peer reviewedMcQuillan, Jeff; Conde, Gisela – Reading Psychology, 1996
Examines conditions under which readers experience intense engagement in a text, termed "optimal experience" or "flow." Reports on two studies examining flow during reading. Concludes that (1) texts for pleasure reading or interest reading provided more flow; (2) fiction was more likely to produce flow than nonfiction; and (3)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Higher Education, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
Sulentic-Dowell, Margaret-Mary; Beal, Gloria D.; Capraro, Robert M. – Reading Psychology, 2006
Three assumptions frame this study (a) preservice teachers who enjoy reading foster positive attitudes towards reading, (b) life-long reading habits are developed during formative years, and (c) these preservice teachers convey reading strategies that encourage success across content strands. This study examines the relationship between literacy…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Comprehension, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
