Does performance in digital reading relate to computer game playing?: A study of factor structure and gender patterns in 15-year-olds’ reading literacy performance.
2015 (English)In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, ISSN 0031-3831, E-ISSN 1470-1170, Vol. 59, no 6, p. 691-709Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Data from a Swedish PISA-sample were used (1) to identify a digital reading factor, (2) toinvestigate gender differences in this factor (if found), and (3) to explore how computergame playing might relate to digital reading performance and gender. The analyses wereconducted with structural equation modeling techniques. In addition to an overall readingfactor, the hypothesized digital reading factor was identified. When the overall readingperformance was taken into account, a relative difference in favor of the boys fordigital reading was indicated. This effect was mediated by a game-playing factorcomprising the amount of time spent on playing computer games. Thus, the boys’better performance in digital reading was explained by the computer game-playing factor.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2015. Vol. 59, no 6, p. 691-709
Keywords [en]
digital reading literacy, gender differences, computer game playing, the PISA literacy assessment
National Category
Social Sciences
Research subject
Teacher Education and Education Work
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-8420DOI: 10.1080/00313831.2014.965795ISI: 000362405900005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84943454254OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-8420DiVA, id: diva2:893179
2016-01-122016-01-122024-02-01Bibliographically approved