Some Personality and Motivational Factors in Reading Retardation
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Educational Research
- Vol. 65 (5) , 229-233
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.1972.10884305
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationships between motivational, personality, and selected variables and retardation in reading achievement. The Ss were one hundred junior high school boys: fifty Caucasians and fifty Negroes. Forty-three variables were submitted to a factor analysis, which yielded fifteen factors. The five factors which were related to reading problems suggested that inadequate readers had verbal deficits, came from low socioeconomic status homes, and adopted one of three adjustive patterns to their reading disability (aggressiveness, negativism, or passivity). Some of the factors were more descriptive of one racial group than of the other.Keywords
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