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Considering the measurement invariance for the instrument Students' Attitude Toward Reading, gender differences in reading attitudes are apparent in all countries, with girls showing a significantly more positive attitude toward reading than boys.
Another predictor that shows a significant interrelation with reading attitudes is the Parents Like Reading scale for girls and boys in France and the Netherlands and for boys in Germany.
Thus, the number of Books at Home, the amount of Reading at Home and the variable Borrow Books from a Library are overall significant predictors of reading attitudes, except for girls in France and girls in the Netherlands for the last variable.
Most research concerning reading attitudes focuses on the relationship between reading attitudes and reading achievement (Abu-Hilal 2000; Cheung et al. 2017; Chiu and Chow, 2015; Petscher 2010).
In the following, we outline central theoretical assumptions on the concepts of reading attitudes and systemize current research concerning the question on how much contextual factors are linked to reading attitudes bearing in mind, gender differences.
Our research identified relevant predictors of reading attitudes of fourth-grade students across four European countries, considering gender differences.
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As reviewed above, prior research has generally demonstrated a close relationship between reading-related affective factors (i.e., reading attitude, reading motivation, and reading self-concept) and reading attainment.
Reading attitude has been conceptualized as a multidimensional construct (Mathewson [1994]), and quite different types of reading attitude are reported in various studies, such as recreational attitude and academic reading attitude in the study by McKenna et al. ([2012]).
He gave her a sticker reading "Attitude is everything," and told her to post it on the bathroom mirror so her husband could see it after serving his sentence.
Swalander and Taube ([2007]) found that reading attitude influenced reading ability.
Gender differences in reading attitude are evident in all four countries.
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