POVEZANOST OSOBINA LIČNOSTI I ČITALAČKIH NAVIKA SREDNJOŠKOLACA
RELATEDNESS OF PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AND READING HABITS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship of personality dimension defined by the Big Five personality model: extraversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, consciousness and intellect, with reading habits among Croatian high school students from the city of Osijek region. Furthermore, we wanted to investigate the ability to predict reading quantity based on personality dimensions, with the contribution of factors such as age, gender and school success. The results displayed are a part of a larger study on prejudice and attitudes. A total of 103 participants, aged from 14 to 20 years, filled in a short questionnaire about how much, compared to other pupils from their school, they read books, enjoy reading news and how many books they read in a year. Also, they completed a short version of IPIP 50 personality questionnaire. Results show a significant positive correlation between how much the participants read and how much they enjoy reading books with the intellect personality dimension (r=.347, p<.01 and r=.276, p<.05 respectively). Other personality dimensions showed no significant correlations with reading variables. In hierarchical regression analyses, after controlling for the effect of age, gender and school success, the Big Five model of personality was able to predict around 20 % of variance of reading quantity, with the intellect being the only significant predictor.

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