I Feel Less Blue When I Read With You: The Effect of Reading Aloud With a Child on Adult Readers' Affect.

Front Psychol · 2021 · PMC8547731 · PMID 34712168

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marginally significantp =. 076so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

However, for participants who read-aloud with the child, there was a positive and marginally significant relationship between amount of extra-textual talk and participants’ positive mood scores ( r =0.58, p =. 076).

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approaching significancep=0 .131not close (p > 0.1)

There was, however, a moderate effect approaching significance in their positive mood scores, t (27)=1.56, p=0 .131, d =0.58, and a significant effect of condition on participants’ high arousal mood scores, t (27)=2.13, p=0 .042, d =0.80, such that participants who read-aloud with a child were feeling somewhat more positive and more excited than those who simply read the same books aloud for the purpose of a recording.

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