Do Poor Readers Feel Angry, Sad, and Unpopular?

ABSTRACT: We investigated whether being poorly skilled in reading contributes to children's self-reported feelings of anger, distractibility, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, and social isolation. Data were analyzed from a longitudinal sub-sample of children (N=2,751) participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort. Multi-level logistic regression analyses indicated that poor readers in 3^rd grade were more likely to consider themselves as angry, distractible, sad, lonely, and unpopular in 5^th grade than those who had not been poor readers in 3^rd grade. About 20% of 3^rd grade poor readers reported feeling angry and unpopular in 5^th grade. Being poorly skilled in mathematics increased children's risk of feeling sad

SUBMITTER: Morgan PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4500191 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature