Adult reading habits and preferences in relation to gender differences
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This article examines existing studies and theories about gender differences in the reading preferences of children, adolescents, and adults. A recent study of the reading preferences of a sample of adult men and women is then presented.
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The higher attrition in the expository non-fiction condition may be a consequence of the expository non-fiction books failing to match participants' personal preferences as well as the narrative books.
“This pattern may be a consequence of the expository non-fiction books failing to match participants' personal preferences as well as the narrative books (e.g.Harkrader & Moore, 1997;Summers, 2013;Topping et al., 2008).”
From The effects of reading narrative fiction on social and moral cognition (2021) · cites this paper as Summers, 2013
The FEAtURE section (page not provided) reports that adults differ in their fiction-versus-nonfiction preferences and that book appeal influences reading choices. It does not examine the citing study’s participants, whether its expository books matched their preferences less well than its narrative books, or whether such a mismatch caused higher attrition. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- J. A. Appleyard, Becoming a Reader: The Experience of Fiction from Childhood to Adulthood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 163.
- Linda Brannon, Gender: Psychological Perspectives, 6th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010), 3.
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- Authors
- Summers, K.
- Corresponding author
- Summers, Kate
- Venue
- Reference & User Services Quarterly
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 2013-03-22
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 243-249
- ISSN
- 1094-9054 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2140536513
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 8.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Reference & User Services Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Literacy and Educational Practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Collection Development and Digital Resources
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Administration
- Keywords
- reading habits, reading preferences, gender differences, adult readers, children's reading, reading behavior
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