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Direct linkLevine, S. L.; Cherrier, S.; Holding, A. C.; Koestner, R. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Reading is often cited as beneficial for one's mental health, but the research on this topic is limited. The goal of the present research was to examine whether recreational reading is beneficial for mental health during college, and to determine what motivates recreational reading. Participants: Participants were 231 university…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, Recreational Reading, Mental Health
Download full textSzabo, Susan, Ed.; Sampson, Mary Beth, Ed.; Foote, Martha M., Ed.; Falk-Ross, Francine, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2010
This volume is a milestone year for the Yearbook, the conference, and the College Reading Association (CRA). At this conference, CRA celebrated its 50th year. The title of this thirty-first yearbook mirrors the theme of the 2008 conference--"Mentoring Literacy Professionals for 50 Years." The title "Mentoring Literacy Professionals:…
Descriptors: College Students, Reading Programs, Reading Motivation, Reading Attitudes
Cevellos, Tatiana – Knowledge Quest, 2008
In this case history, the author describes how her journey as a reader evolved from a poor reader who did not like to read in elementary school into an avid trilingual reader in graduate school. Once she discovered the joy of reading, each language in which she read had its own purpose and emotional connection. She credits self-selected reading…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Reading Motivation
Kelly, William E.; Daughtry, Don – Reading Improvement, 2006
This study explored the relationship between reading for pleasure and noctcaelador (strong interest in, and psychological attachment to, the night sky). University students (N = 185) completed measures of reading for pleasure and noctcaelador. Age was significantly correlated with both reading for pleasure and noctcaelador. Reading for pleasure…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Recreational Reading, Student Interests, College Students
Schutte, Nicola S.; Malouff, John M. – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
In this study 251 Australian university students, with a mean age of 26.46, indicated their preference for different types of reading material. A subset of 136 participants additionally reported how many hours per week they typically engage in recreational reading and non-recreational reading, indicated their motivation for recreational reading,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recreational Reading, Reading Materials, Personality Traits
Powell-Brown, Ann – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2004
In this article, the author asserts that it is impossible for a person who does not love reading to be a good literacy teacher. She discusses the reasons her undergraduate preservice teaching students give for having given up on reading as a pleasurable activity, presents strategies her graduate students used to begin to enjoy reading, and offers…
Descriptors: Reading Teachers, Literature Appreciation, Reading Instruction, Teacher Role
