We enjoy doing reading together: finding potential in affective encounters with people and things for sustaining volitional reading

Figures & data

Table 1. Association between children’s reading frequency and enjoyment.

	Reading frequency
Reading enjoyment	Reads once per week or less	Reads more than once per week
Somewhat enjoys/neither enjoys nor dislikes/dislikes	1095 (23.3%)	1278 (27.2%)
Very much enjoys	160 (3.4%)	2170 (46.1%)

Table 2. Summary of the odds of home and whānau experiences associated with reading frequency and enjoyment.

Predictors	Frequency odds ratio	Frequency lower conf int	Frequency upper conf int	Enjoyment odds ratio	Enjoyment lower conf int	Enjoyment upper conf int
Quiet/inactive play more than once per week	5.12	4.43	5.92	2.07	1.8	2.38
Has an eReader	3.57	1.54	10.14	1.99	1.16	3.5
Play time: Not enough play time	2.88	2.11	3.94	1.69	1.25	2.27
Play time: Right amount of play time	2.86	2.26	3.61	1.92	1.51	2.44
Free time preference: Usually chooses inactive things	2.53	2.3	2.79	0.93^ns	0.85	1.01
51+ other books in the home at 9 m	2.29	2	2.62	1.51	1.34	1.7
Homework more than once per week	2.24	1.94	2.58	1.45	1.27	1.66
Mother has diploma or higher at birth	2.13	1.85	2.46	1.46	1.28	1.68
Active play more than once per week	2.13	1.85	2.46	1.06^ns	0.92	1.21
Household chores more than once per week	1.92	1.66	2.21	1.23	1.08	1.4
Adults at home: More adults	1.82	1.55	2.14	0.78	0.67	0.91
Enjoys being read to more than half the time at 9 m	1.8	1.57	2.06	1.53	1.36	1.73
Adults at home: Two adults	1.73	1.45	2.07	1.35	1.14	1.6
21+ childrens books in the home at 9 m	1.67	1.46	1.92	1.11^ns	0.98	1.26
Partner has diploma or higher at birth	1.65	1.38	1.99	1.38	1.17	1.62
Reads words more than once a week at 54 m	1.47	1.28	1.68	1.66	1.47	1.88
Free time preference: Equally likely	1.47	1.26	1.71	1.3	1.14	1.48
Is read to about ethnicity at least sometimes at 54 m	1.18	1.01	1.37	1.55	1.36	1.77
Play time: Too much play time	1.13^ns	0.9	1.41	0.55	0.44	0.69
Adults at home: Single adult	1.12^ns	0.86	1.46	0.98^ns	0.76	1.27
Free time preference: Usually chooses active things	0.9^ns	0.76	1.07	0.81	0.69	0.95
Has a tablet	0.83	0.72	0.95	0.78	0.69	0.88
Play time: Don’t Know	0.8^ns	0.56	1.16	1.27	0.87	1.84
Has 2 or more siblings at home	0.66	0.57	0.76	0.8	0.7	0.91
Play time: Prefer not to say	0.63^ns	0.31	1.27	1.62^ns	0.8	3.25
Greater screentime	0.48	0.4	0.56	0.55	0.48	0.63
Free time preference: Don’t Know	0.22	0.12	0.39	1.12^ns	0.65	1.94
Free time preference: Prefer not to say	0.17	0.07	0.41	0.69^ns	0.29	1.59

Cell shading indicates a greater association with frequency or enjoyment.

^nsdenotes a confidence interval that includes 1 and therefore results are not statistically significant.

Table 3. Reading frequency and enjoyment in association with outside of home experiences.

Predictors	Frequency Odds ratio	Frequency  Lower conf int	Frequency  Upper conf int	Enjoyment Odds ratio	Enjoyment  Lower conf int	Enjoyment  Upper conf int
Parental pride in: Interest in learning	3.51	3.15	3.91	1.52	1.39	1.67
Parents very satisfied with learning progress at age 8	2.07	1.81	2.37	2.97	2.6	3.38
Organised individual sport once per week or more	1.96	1.72	2.24	1.36	1.21	1.53
Art, music, dance once per week or more	1.94	1.69	2.22	1.65	1.47	1.86
Visits library weekly at 6 y	1.6	1.37	1.87	1.35	1.19	1.54
Organised team sport once per week or more	1.57	1.37	1.8	1.03ns	0.91	1.16
Feels good at school work	1.51	1.3	1.75	1.63	1.43	1.87
Does well at class work	1.51	1.3	1.75	1.76	1.48	2.09
Community group or club once per week or more	1.4	1.2	1.63	1.13ns	0.99	1.28
Parents satisfied with ECE reading at 54 m	1.27	1.11	1.46	1.42	1.26	1.6
Parents very satisfied with teacher communication	1.21	1.05	1.39	1.33	1.18	1.5
Finds answers easily	1.19	1.03	1.37	1.39	1.23	1.58
Almost always enjoys school	1.17	1.02	1.34	1.16	1.03	1.31
Feels quick at school work	1.15ns	1	1.32	1.27	1.13	1.44
Parental pride in: Academic abilities	1.12ns	0.87	1.45	0.91ns	0.74	1.12
Academic lessons once per week or more	0.96ns	0.81	1.13	0.97ns	0.83	1.12
Religious activity once per week or more	0.96ns	0.82	1.12	1.1ns	0.96	1.26
After school care once per week or more	0.94ns	0.81	1.1	0.96ns	0.84	1.09
Parental pride in: Enthusiasm for school	0.93ns	0.77	1.12	0.61	0.52	0.72
Before school care once per week or more	0.87ns	0.71	1.08	0.93ns	0.77	1.12
Parental pride in: More than one	0.78ns	0.27	2.84	0.24	0.07	0.7
Parental pride in: Creativity/artistic ability/cultural activities	0.74ns	0.28	2.32	0.19	0.05	0.53
Parental pride in: Music abilities	0.66ns	0.27	1.89	0.35	0.13	0.87
Parental pride in: Confidence	0.57	0.45	0.72	0.44	0.35	0.55
Parental pride in: Diligence/ hard working	0.57ns	0.18	2.14	0.47ns	0.14	1.48
Parental pride in: Behaviour	0.56	0.43	0.73	0.3	0.23	0.38
Parental pride in: Interaction with other children	0.53	0.43	0.66	0.36	0.29	0.44
Parental pride in: Sporting abilities	0.32	0.23	0.45	0.19	0.13	0.28
Parental pride in: Other/Don’t know	0.28	0.17	0.44	0.26	0.15	0.42

Cell shading indicates a greater association with frequency or enjoyment.

^nsdenotes a confidence interval that includes 1 and therefore results are not statistically significant

Figure 1. Number of minutes at age 8 of passive, background and active screen time on a usual weekday or weekend.

Data availability

Quantitative data analysed in the original study referred to in this article come from the Growing Up in New Zealand Study, reference: DA20_1009.