APS
2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026
Racial/Ethnic Similarities and Differences between Reading Motivation and Reading Comprehension
- Hitomi Kambara
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Po-Yi Chen
National Taiwan Normal University - Yu-Cheng Lin
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - Hung-Chu Lin
University of Louisiana Lafayette - Chih-Ning Chang
National Taiwan Normal University
Abstract
This study examined 1,095 White American, Hispanic American, and African American college students using multiple-group structural equation modeling. Intrinsic reading motivation positively predicted reading amount and comprehension universally. Conversely, extrinsic motivation negatively impacted reading amount significantly more strongly for Hispanic American than White or African American students.
