Longitudinal associations between reading for pleasure and child maladjustment: Results from a propensity score matching analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Reading for pleasure has been shown to have benefits for academic attainment and the development of empathy. Yet, whether reading for pleasure is linked with other aspects of children's development remains unclear.

Objective

This study examines the association between reading for pleasure and children's psychological and behavioural adjustment at the onset of adolescence.

Method

We analysed data from 8936 participants in the Millennium Cohort Study, Sweeps 4 (age 7) and 5 (age 11), and used propensity score matching methods to match children who read frequently with children with similar individual, social, familial, and behavioural characteristics who read less often.

Results

Daily reading for pleasure at age 7 was associated with lower levels of hyp

SUBMITTER: Mak HW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7429985 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature