The Correlation among Reading Habit, Reading Attitude and Academic Performance of the Students
Keywords:
academic performance, reading anxiety, reading attitude, reading enjoyment, reading habit.Abstract
The reading habit is considered as an essential aspect for creating the literate society. It forms personality of an individual to think and generate new ideas. The purpose of the study was to understand the reading habit and reading attitude among undergraduate students and their correlations with academic performance. This study used online survey approach for collecting data from undergraduate students of private universities of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi. The questionnaires were sent to the students through WhatsApp, 240 responses were received from the survey. The study shows that the positive attitude of reading and reading habit has positive correlation with academic performance of undergraduate students. However, reading anxiety has negative relationship with student’s achievement.
