Pupils from middle-class homes devoted an average of 7.2 per cent of leisure time to reading. The relationship between home environment, attitude to reading and motivations for reading on the one hand and leisure-time reading on the other, was examined. The addition of these sets of variables to previously established correlates of leisure-time reading, achievement, sex, and library membership increased the proportion of variance accounted for in leisure-time reading by a significant amount (10.1 per cent). Correlations tended to be low, since leisure reading is a relatively sporadic type activity. From the perspective of developing the reading habit, the results suggest that what parents do is more important than what they are; the emphasis placed on reading in the home, on academic development and on intellectuality was related to leisure-time reading. Attitude to reading correlated more highly with leisure-time reading than any of the other variables included in the study; the correlation between attitude and time was significant even after controlling for sex, reading achievement and library membership. Among the motivational variables, reading for enjoyment was related to leisure-time reading whereas reading for utilitarian or escapist reasons was not.
RESUME Corrklats d la lecture en temps de loisirLes tentatives visant A expliquer le comportement des enfants vis-&+is de la lecture en temps de loisir, ont ett jusqu'g present relativement sans succks. Parmi les ISSN 0141-0423 52.00 @ 1987 Journal of Research in Reading (UKRA) 4 VINCENT GREANEY and MARY HEGARTY corrklats A la lecture de loisir identifies, on distingue le performance, le sexe, le statut socio-kconomique, la taille de la famille, et l'appartenance a une bibliothtque. Les corrklations entre ces parambres ont tendance a Ctre peu importantes.De rtcentes recherches ont mis en lumitre un certain nombre d'klements ou variables en plus qui pourrait fort bien augmenter l'importance de la variance en matitre de lecture de loisir, variance ttablie grice aux corrtlats prtctdemment citks.Ces variables sont: l'attitude par rapport A la lecture et des facteurs de motivation tels que la lecture pour le plaisir, pour des raisons utilitaires et pour s'kvader. De plus, des recherches au niveau des ktudes suivies dans la famille ont mis en lumitre une strie de variables concernant l'influence familiale et likes A la compttence et aux connaissances de l'enfant. Ces variables ont tendance Ctre assez spkcifiques et converger vers un ensemble de dispositions nkcessaires A l'instruction gknkrale a la maison, en rapport avec l'instruction et l'kxkcution du travail, ainsi que l'insistance sur le dtveloppement du langage et l'interaction sociale au milieu familial. Ces variables additionnelles ainsi que les corrklats prkckdemment ttablis furent inclus dans cette etude. Les informations sur les habitudes de lecture en temps de loisir d'enfants appartenant A des classes de 2de ('fifth grade') (N:138) furent obtenues grPce A des agendas individuels completes par les eltves ...
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