Study on factors influencing college students’ digital academic reading behavior
BackgroundAffected by the COVID-19, many colleges have adopted online teaching. Meanwhile, the digital transformation of academic journals has shifted readers’ reading habits from traditional paper media to digital media. Digital academic reading has become the main reading method of college student...
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| description | BackgroundAffected by the COVID-19, many colleges have adopted online teaching. Meanwhile, the digital transformation of academic journals has shifted readers’ reading habits from traditional paper media to digital media. Digital academic reading has become the main reading method of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic.PurposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate the behavioral characteristics of college students’ digital academic reading and explore the internal factors and external environmental factors affecting the Intention and Use behavior of digital academic reading. At the same time this study provide recommendations to address these influencing factors in terms of the individual, the environment and library resources.MethodsBased on UTAUT2 model and digital academic reading theories, this paper constructs a digital academic reading information behavior (DARB) model of college students to examine college students’ digital academic reading behavior and intention. College students with digital academic reading behavior were recruited as research participants. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to collect representative samples from universities in Nanjing. 239 respondents participated in the questionnaire, with 189 providing valid data. Results: Effort expectancy (EE), social influence (SI), price value (PV), perceived risk (PR) and habit (BH) have a significant impact on behavioral intention (BI), and behavioral intention (BI) and habit (BH) have a significant impact on use behavior (B). However, performance expectancy (PE) and facilitating conditions (FC) have no significant influence on behavioral intention (BI).Originality/valueThe findings of this study will help fill the gap in previous research on the relationship between the influencing factors of digital academic reading and college students’ reading intentions and behaviors, so as to provide a basis for improving the academic reading literacy program in colleges and optimizing the current digital academic reading environment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-79457e74cbff4167bfd28123f7d7f53a2023-01-12T04:54:57ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-01-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.10072471007247Study on factors influencing college students’ digital academic reading behaviorLiyan Chang0Yujie Wang1Jing Liu2Yao Feng3Xinyao Zhang4School of Information Management, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Management, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Management, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Management, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Management, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, ChinaBackgroundAffected by the COVID-19, many colleges have adopted online teaching. Meanwhile, the digital transformation of academic journals has shifted readers’ reading habits from traditional paper media to digital media. Digital academic reading has become the main reading method of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic.PurposeThe purpose of this study was to investigate the behavioral characteristics of college students’ digital academic reading and explore the internal factors and external environmental factors affecting the Intention and Use behavior of digital academic reading. At the same time this study provide recommendations to address these influencing factors in terms of the individual, the environment and library resources.MethodsBased on UTAUT2 model and digital academic reading theories, this paper constructs a digital academic reading information behavior (DARB) model of college students to examine college students’ digital academic reading behavior and intention. College students with digital academic reading behavior were recruited as research participants. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to collect representative samples from universities in Nanjing. 239 respondents participated in the questionnaire, with 189 providing valid data. Results: Effort expectancy (EE), social influence (SI), price value (PV), perceived risk (PR) and habit (BH) have a significant impact on behavioral intention (BI), and behavioral intention (BI) and habit (BH) have a significant impact on use behavior (B). However, performance expectancy (PE) and facilitating conditions (FC) have no significant influence on behavioral intention (BI).Originality/valueThe findings of this study will help fill the gap in previous research on the relationship between the influencing factors of digital academic reading and college students’ reading intentions and behaviors, so as to provide a basis for improving the academic reading literacy program in colleges and optimizing the current digital academic reading environment.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1007247/fulldigital academic readingstructural equation modelinfluencing factorsbehavioral intentionsocial influencereading behavior |
| spellingShingle | Liyan Chang Yujie Wang Jing Liu Yao Feng Xinyao Zhang Study on factors influencing college students’ digital academic reading behavior Frontiers in Psychology digital academic reading structural equation model influencing factors behavioral intention social influence reading behavior |
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