TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schaffner, Ellen
A1  - Schiefele, Ulrich
A1  - Schmidt, Meike
T1  - The importance of family background for reading motivation and reading frequency of high school students
JF  - Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychologie
N2  - This article examines the relationships between family background and reading motivation (RM) as well as reading frequency in a sample of 156 high school students. To test the effects of family background (migration status, books at home, parents' appreciation of reading, parents' motivating practices), hierarchical regression analyses were applied. In these analyses, students' perceptions of reading incentives provided by the school and peer group were taken into account as control variables. Parents' learning-oriented appreciation of reading and motivating practices emerged as important predictors of intrinsic and extrinsic RM. Reading frequency was predicted by the number of books at home and parents' motivating practices. The effects of family background on extrinsic RM and reading frequency remained stable, even after controlling for reading incentives provided by the school and peer group.
KW  - reading motivation
KW  - reading frequency
KW  - family background
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000085
SN  - 0049-8637
VL  - 45
IS  - 3
SP  - 131
EP  - 141
PB  - Hogrefe
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -