Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire

David S. Miall; Don Kuiken

doi:10.58680/rte199515356

Research in the Teaching of English Feb 1995

Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire

David S. Miall University of Alberta ; Don Kuiken University of Alberta

Abstract

A newly developed instrument, the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ), provides scales that measure seven different aspects of readers’ orientation toward literary texts: Insight, Empathy, Imagery Vividness, Leisure Escape, Concern with Author, Story-Driven Reading, and Rejection of Literary Values. The present report presents evidence that each of these scales possesses satisfactory internal consistency, retest reliability, and factorial validity. Also, a series of five studies provided preliminary evidence that each scale may be located in a theoretically plausible network of relations with certain global personality traits (e.g., Absorption), with aspects of cognitive style (e.g., Regression in the Service of the Ego), and with some of the learning skills that are relevant to effective work in the classroom (e.g., Elaborative Processing). In a variety of teaching and research settings, the LRQ may be a useful measure of individual differences in readers’ orientation toward literary texts.

Journal: Research in the Teaching of English
Published: 1995-02-01
DOI: 10.58680/rte199515356
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Topics: teacher development
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