TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schiefele, Ulrich
A1  - Schaffner, Ellen
T1  - Reading motivation of Sixth-Grade Elementary School Students - results from an interview study
JF  - Psychologie in Erziehung und Unterricht : Zeitschrift für Forschung und Praxis
N2  - Based on research by Wigfield and Guthrie (1997), Moller and Bonerad (2007) as well as Schaffner and Schiefele (2007) have developed questionnaires to assess students' reading motivation. The goal of the present study was to examine whether these instruments coincide with students' subjective views of their own reading motivation. In order to clarify this question, we conducted interviews with 26 elementary school students and applied content analysis to examine the interview protocols. Although the results support some of the theoretically postulated components, they suggest that questionnaire measures have neglected some important aspects of reading motivation (e. g., reading to regulate one's feelings, reading to relax). Finally, consequences for the revision of reading motivation questionnaires were discussed.
KW  - Reading motivation
KW  - interview method
KW  - elementary school
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.2378/peu2013.art17d
SN  - 0342-183X
VL  - 60
IS  - 3
SP  - 214
EP  - 233
PB  - Reinhardt
CY  - München
ER  -