University Student Reading Preferences in Relation to the Big Five Personality Dimensions

Autor/inn/en	Schutte, Nicola S.; Malouff, John M.
Titel	University Student Reading Preferences in Relation to the Big Five Personality Dimensions
Quelle	In: Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 25 (2004) 4, S.273-295 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-2711
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Recreational Reading; Reading Materials; Personality Traits; College Students; Higher Education; Student Attitudes; Reading Motivation; Predictor Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Häusliche Lektüre; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schülerverhalten; Lesemotivation; Prädiktor
Abstract	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, completed a Big Five personality inventory, and kept a week-long reading log in which they recorded daily their recreational reading of different types of materials. A principal components analysis showed that reading preferences grouped into eight content areas. A set correlation analysis showed that overall the Big Five personality dimensions predicted reading preferences. Openness and conscientiousness in particular were good predictors of four specific types of content preferences. Preference for a certain type of material tended to predict time spent reading that material as reported in the week-long reading log. Further, the Big Five personality dimensions together predicted total amount of recreational reading, amount of reading of favorite material, and amount of non-recreational reading. (Author).
Anmerkungen	Customer Services for Taylor & Francis Group Journals, 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420 (Toll Free); Fax: 215-625-8914.;
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10