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Motivational Aspects of Students’ Amount of Reading and Affective Reading Experiences in a School Context: A Large-Scale Study of Grades 6 and 9
Department of Science and Mathematics Education, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1535-873X
Dalarna University, School of Teacher Education, Educational Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9990-5501
Dalarna University, School of Teacher Education, Educational Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7561-7679
Dalarna University, School of Teacher Education, Educational Work.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2130-4797
2022 (English)In: Reading Psychology, ISSN 0270-2711, E-ISSN 1521-0685, Vol. 43, no 7, p. 442-476Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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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’ attitudes toward the school subjects and general attitudes toward reading. Questionnaire data were collected from 3308 students in Grades 6 and 9 at 144 schools in Sweden. Multiple linear regression indicates that students’ attitudes toward the subject are more important predictors of reading amount than their reading motivation. Motivation type was primarily related to students’ affective experiences of the reading, and only weakly related to their amount of school-related reading. Results suggest that the relationship between motivation and school-related reading differ from voluntary leisure-time reading. The study thus complements previous research which primarily has focused on the role of students’ motivation for their amount of leisure-time reading.

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2022. Vol. 43, no 7, p. 442-476
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school-related reading, reading, middle school, secondary school, motivation, Self-determination theory, student attitudes
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-42516DOI: 10.1080/02702711.2022.2118914ISI: 000850620800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85137770331OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-42516DiVA, id: diva2:1693489
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Swedish Research Council, 2017-2019/2020Available from: 2022-09-07 Created: 2022-09-07 Last updated: 2026-02-10Bibliographically approved

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