Children's perspectives on being absorbed when reading fiction: A Q methodology study

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11230/22:10449783

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.966820" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2022.966820</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Children's perspectives on being absorbed when reading fiction: A Q methodology study

Original language description

Research in the intersections of literature, media, and psychology increasingly examines the absorbing story experiences of adult readers, typically relying on quantitative self-report questionnaires. Meanwhile, little work has been done to explore how being &quot;lost in a book&quot; is experienced by children, despite the phenomenon&apos;s importance for literacy education. Such work requires tools that are more inductive and child-centered than questionnaires. We have conducted a Q methodology study with participants aged 9-12 (n = 28), exploring how it feels for them when the mind and body are attuned to a story and how different facets of absorption (e.g., mental imagery, emotional engagement) inform the experience. Participants numerically sorted 24 cards expressing inner states and expectations relating to book-length fiction reading and were subsequently interviewed regarding their sorting choices. The cards were generated inductively based on preliminary research (focus groups, individual interviews, observations). By-person factor analysis of the sortings combined with reflective thematic analysis of the post-sorting interviews revealed four distinct reader subjectivities, or perspectives: Growth, Confirmation, Attachment and Mental Shift. Crucially, the children in these groups differed as to prominent dimensions of absorption but also as to the overall place of reading in their inner and everyday lives. Based on the four perspectives, we demonstrate that children have varied ways of being absorbed when reading fiction, and reflect on the affordances of Q methodology as a suitable child-centered approach to studying the subjective experiences of reading.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Psychology [online]

ISSN

1664-1078

e-ISSN

1664-1078

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Neuveden

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

1-19

UT code for WoS article

000873762200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85139986118