Does reading anxiety impact on academic achievement in higher education students?

ABSTRACT: Poor readers have lower academic achievement and increased anxiety, including reading anxiety, which may perpetuate lower academic achievement. We explored reading anxiety in university students, investigating whether the association between reading ability and academic achievement is mediated by reading anxiety (independent of general anxiety). Participants were students (n = 169, 69% female, age = 20.70) at an Australian university who completed an online reading assessment (decoding skills, phonological awareness, orthographical knowledge and comprehension), and a survey examining reading anxiety, trait anxiety and self-reported reading history. Academic achievement was based on university grades. Two reading anxiety factors (social and non-social) were identified; both factors were dis

SUBMITTER: Soares S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10946889 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature