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ERIC ED413930: A Content Analysis and Historical Comparison of Bibl... |
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Treatment characteristics and methods were analyzed for |
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103 empirical studies of reading therapy, or |
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bibliotherapy, from the United States and Canada |
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conducted over the past two decades and retrieved from |
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the PsychInfo database. A content analysis was performed |
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on each study, and quantified data was reported and |
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compared within and between two time groups, 1970-1983 |
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and 1984-1996. Data for journal title, author gender and |
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occupational field, treatment area, focus age group, |
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literary genre, treatment method, and outcome measure |
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were gathered for each study. Frequencies and percentages |
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calculated and tabulated for each analyzed category |
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revealed strong similarities across time groups for a |
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number of like categories. It was found that individual |
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factors of high frequency and percentage from categories |
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in the first time group most often had high frequencies |
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and percentages in comparable categories of the second |
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time group. A few major differences were noted, though |
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mostly for factors of low percentage within a given |
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category. Across both groups, the number of male authors |
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(researchers) exceeded females, and the highest |
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percentage of authors worked in the field of psychology. |
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Most research was conducted on adult subjects, and self- |
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help literature was the most prescribed genre for all the |
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studies analyzed. Treatment methods were found to be |
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categorizable by the level of therapist/researcher |
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involvement with subjects. These categories were the same |
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across groups. Methods were statistically compared by |
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their outcome measures. Chi square analysis revealed no |
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greater chance of any one treatment method producing more |
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significant outcomes than any other treatment method, for |
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both time groups. The coding sheet is appended. |
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Information is presented in nine tables.(Contains 25 |
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references.) (Author/AEF) |
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Date Published: 2015-12-23 04:43:35 |
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Identifier: ERIC_ED413930 |
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Item Size: 29286935 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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