Does reading anxiety impact on academic achievement in higher education students?
Journal article
Soares, Sophia, Boyes, Mark, Parrila, Rauno and Badcock, N. A.. (2023). Does reading anxiety impact on academic achievement in higher education students? Dyslexia. 29(3), pp. 179-198. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1738
Authors | Soares, Sophia, Boyes, Mark, Parrila, Rauno and Badcock, N. A. |
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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 distinct from trait anxiety. Reading ability was negatively correlated with reading anxiety and positively correlated with academic achievement. Reading anxiety was not correlated with academic achievement and it did not mediate the relationship between reading ability and academic achievement as expected. As this was the first study to explore reading anxiety in adults, further research is required to determine the impact reading anxiety may have on university students beyond academic achievement. |
Keywords | academic achievement; reading ability; reading anxiety; university; reading assessment; adult literacy |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Journal | Dyslexia |
Journal citation | 29 (3), pp. 179-198 |
Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd (UK) |
ISSN | 1076-9242 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1738 |
Web address (URL) | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dys.1738 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 179-198 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 10 May 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 24 Apr 2023 |
Deposited | 24 Jul 2024 |
Additional information | © 2023 The Authors. Dyslexia published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which | |
Open access publishing facilitated by The University of Western Australia, as part of the Wiley - The University of Western Australia agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians. | |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/90v85/does-reading-anxiety-impact-on-academic-achievement-in-higher-education-students
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