Adolescent leisure reading and its longitudinal association with prosocial behavior and social adjustment.

Autor: Lenhart J; Department of Psychology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany. jan.lenhart@uni-bamberg.de., Richter T; Department of Psychology IV, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany., Appel M; Department of Human-Computer-Media, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany., Mar RA; Department of Psychology IV, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.; Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2023 Jun 15; Vol. 13 (1), pp. 9695. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 15.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35346-7
Abstrakt: Reading is a popular leisure activity for children, teenagers, and adults. Several theories agree that reading might improve social cognition, but the empirical evidence remains tentative, with research on adolescents especially lacking. We employed a very large, and nationally representative, longitudinal dataset from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) in Germany to examine this hypothesis. Specifically, we tested whether reading prospectively predicted future self-reported prosocial behavior and social adjustment in adolescents, controlling for a number of covariates. Two-way cross-lagged panel analyses probed the longitudinal relationship between leisure reading and these social outcomes from Grade 6 to Grade 9. In addition, we examined the effect of cumulative reading experience across Grades 5-8 on future social outcomes, using structural equation modeling. We also explored the unique contributions of cumulative reading experience in different literary genres (classic literature, popular literature, nonfiction, comic books). Cumulative reading in general did not predict future prosocial behavior and social adjustment. However, cumulative reading of modern classic literature was positively associated with later prosocial behavior and social adjustment. PROTOCOL REGISTRATION: The stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 08 November 2021. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KSWY7 .
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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