Library and Information Service

Library and Information Service >

2023 , Vol. 67 >Issue 12: 70 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2023.12.007

INFORMATION RESEARCH

Reading as Moral Afternoon Tea: Dynamic Effects of Reading Period on Moral Motivation

  • Jiang Chong ,
  • Wang Xiaoguang ,
  • Zhao Liang
Expand
  • 1 School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072;
    2 Key Laboratory of Semantic Publishing and Knowledge Service of the National Press and Publication Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072;
    3 Big Data Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072

Received date: 2022-10-19

  Revised date: 2023-01-01

  Online published: 2023-07-06

Fold

Abstract

[Purpose/Significance] People’s moral motivation is affected by the morning morality effect. From morning to afternoon, people’s moral motivation is eroded in the time rhythm. Based on the strong relationship between literary reading and morality, this paper empirically explores whether literary reading can be a way to compensate people’s moral motivation for loss. [Method/Process] With the help of digital reading environment, this study took the social annotations in the process of reading as the content of readers’ reading attention, depicted the changes of moral motivation in different periods of 24 hours of reading attention, proposed the “reading as moral afternoon tea”, hypothesized that literary reading, as a self-regulating spiritual energy, was helpful to reduce the loss of moral motivation. Especially in the afternoon, the moral motivation of readers was significantly compensated. Based on the reading annotation data of 30 590 top 8 novels on the bestselling list of Baidu Reading platform, this paper adopted sliding window method to adjust the precise boundary of morning, afternoon and night to compare the moral motivation of reading attention in different periods. [Result/Conclusion] Robust results show that readers’ attention to moral motivation is significantly higher in the afternoon than in the morning, which verifies the compensatory effect of literary reading on readers’ moral motivation in the afternoon. This study extends the morning morality effect, and at the same time reveals the dynamic correlation mechanism between 24-hours-a-day reading and morality through the empirical method of big data, which provides an empirical explanation for literary reading to supplement spiritual energy and enhance moral motivation, and provides theoretical support for the reading recommendation algorithm serving the construction of spiritual civilization.

Key words： digital reading; social annotation; moral motivation; reading as moral afternoon tea; compensational control

Cite this article

Jiang Chong , Wang Xiaoguang , Zhao Liang . Reading as Moral Afternoon Tea: Dynamic Effects of Reading Period on Moral Motivation[J]. Library and Information Service, 2023 , 67(12) : 70 -78 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2023.12.007

References

[1] 李桂华,刘静.转向:全媒体时代青少年复合阅读图景[J].中国图书馆学报, 2019, 45(2):72-87.
[2] 尹召凯,任同,张志强.中国居民阅读行为对社会治理绩效感知的影响研究——基于CGSS2015数据的实证分析[J].中国图书馆学报, 2022, 48(3):79-95.
[3] GABRIEL S, YOUNG A F. Becoming a vampire without being bitten:the narrative collective-assimilation hypothesis[J]. Psychological science, 2011, 22(8):990-994.
[4] GREEN M C, BROCK T C. In the mind's eye:transportationimagery model of narrative persuasion[M]. New York:Psychology Press, 2003:315-341.
[5] 李桂华.深阅读:概念构建与路径探索[J].中国图书馆学报, 2017, 43(6):50-62.
[6] 巫芯宇.基于移动终端的大学生深阅读行为影响因素研究——基于扎根理论的质性分析[J].图书情报工作, 2021, 65(24):80-88.
[7] 胡洁,王美姝.基于HLM模型的阅读素养影响效应研究——以我国四省市PISA 2018阅读素养数据为例[J].情报科学, 2022, 40(2):127-132, 140.
[8] 央广网.李克强总理答记者问[EB/OL].[2022-07-08]. http://news.cnr.cn/special/2015lh/zb/lkq/wz/20150315/t2015315_518006330.shtml.
[9] 卿倩,李桂华.政策工具视野下我国省级全民阅读政策研究[J].中国图书馆学报, 2020, 46(3):88-101.
[10] 夏立新,李成龙,孙晶琼.多维集成视角下全民阅读评估标准体系的构建[J].中国图书馆学报, 2015, 41(6):13-28.
[11] JANKO R. Aristotle:poetics[M]. Indiana:Hackett Publishing, 1987.
[12] BOOTH W C. The company we keep:an ethics of fiction[M]. California:Univ of California Press, 1988.
[13] HABERMAS J. Moralbewußtsein und kommunikatives Handeln[M]. Frankfurt am main:Suhrkamp Verlag, 1983.
[14] VAN PEER W. Literature, imagination, and human rights[J]. Philosophy and literature, 1995, 19(2):276-291.
[15] NUSSBAUM M C. Cultivating humanity[M]. London:Harvard University Press, 1998.
[16] DE BOTTON A. How Proust can change your life[M]. New York:Pan Macmillan, 1998.
[17] BOYD B. On the origin of stories:evolution, cognition, and fiction[M]. London:Harvard University Press, 2010.
[18] SONTAG S. At the same time:essays and speeches[M]. New York:Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
[19] PINKER S. The better angels of our nature:the decline of violence in history and its causes[M]. London:Penguin Books, 2011.
[20] NUSSBAUM M C. Poetic justice:the literary imagination and public life[J]. Political theory, 1998, 26(4):557-583.
[21] JOHNSON M. Moral imagination:implications of cognitive science for ethics[M]. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 2014.
[22] BERAN M K. Lincoln, Macbeth, and the moral imagination[J]. Humanitas, 1998, 11(2):4-21.
[23] GUROIAN V. Awakening the moral imagination:teaching virtues through fairy tales[J]. The intercollegiate review, 1996, 32(1):3-13.
[24] 李武,艾鹏亚,周冬.阅读使人更亲社会吗?——一项基于CGSS数据的初探[J].中国出版, 2020(16):8-14.
[25] LI W, ZHOU L, AI P, et al. Reading prosocial content in books and adolescents'prosocial behavior:a moderated mediation model with evidence from China[J]. Frontiers in psychology, 2022, 13:973481.
[26] OATLEY K. Emotions and the story worlds of fiction[M]//Narrative impact. New York:Psychology Press, 2003:39-69.
[27] OATLEY K. The science of fiction[J]. New scientist, 2008, 198(2662):42-43.
[28] HAKEMULDER F. The moral laboratory:experiments examining the effects of reading literature on social perception and moral self-concept[M]. Amsterdam:John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000.
[29] MAR R A, OATLEY K, HIRSH J, et al. Bookworms versus nerds:exposure to fiction versus non-fiction, divergent associations with social ability, and the simulation of fictional social worlds[J]. Journal of research in personality, 2006, 40(5):694-712.
[30] APPLEYARD J A. Becoming a reader:the experience of fiction from childhood to adulthood[M]. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1994.
[31] AQUINO K, FREEMAN D, REED II A, et al. Testing a socialcognitive model of moral behavior:the interactive influence of situations and moral identity centrality[J]. Journal of personality and social psychology, 2009, 97(1):123-141.
[32] FRIMER J A, WALKER L J, DUNLOP W L, et al. The integration of agency and communion in moral personality:evidence of enlightened self-interest[J]. Journal of personality and social psychology, 2011, 101(1):149-163.
[33] LOCKE K D. Agentic and communal social motives[J]. Social and personality psychology compass, 2015, 9(10):525-538.
[34] FRIMER J A, WALKER L J, LEE B H, et al. Hierarchical integration of agency and communion:a study of influential moral figures[J]. Journal of personality, 2012, 80(4):1117-1145.
[35] FRIMER J A, SCHAEFER N K, OAKES H. Moral actor, selfish agent[J]. Journal of personality and social psychology, 2014, 106(5):790-802.
[36] ZHANG Y, YU F. Which socio-economic indicators influence collective morality?big data analysis on online Chinese social media[J]. Emerging markets finance and trade, 2018, 54(4):792-800.
[37] KOUCHAKI M, SMITH I H. The morning morality effect:the influence of time of day on unethical behavior[J]. Psychological science, 2014, 25(1):95-102.
[38] 喻丰,许丽颖,韩婷婷,等.道德节律:基于新浪微博的道德动机每分变化[J].科学通报, 2020, 65(19):2055-2061.
[39] TICE D M, BAUMEISTER R F, SHMUELI D, et al. Restoring the self:positive affect helps improve self-regulation following ego depletion[J]. Journal of experimental social psychology, 2007, 43(3):379-384.
[40] MURAVEN M, BAUMEISTER R F. Self-regulation and depletion of limited resources:does self-control resemble a muscle?[J]. Psychological bulletin, 2000, 126(2):247-259.
[41] SONNENTAG S. Recovery, work engagement, and proactive behavior:a new look at the interface between nonwork and work[J]. Journal of applied psychology, 2003, 88(3):518-528.
[42] ROSEN C L, STORFER-ISSER A, TAYLOR H G, et al. Increased behavioral morbidity in school-aged children with sleep-disordered breathing[J]. Pediatrics, 2004, 114(6):1640-1648.
[43] GINO F, SCHWEITZER M E, MEAD N L, et al. Unable to resist temptation:how self-control depletion promotes unethical behavior[J]. Organizational behavior and human decision processes, 2011, 115(2):191-203.
[44] KAY A C, WHITSON J A, GAUCHER D, et al. Compensatory control:achieving order through the mind, our institutions, and the heavens[J]. Current directions in psychological science, 2009, 18(5):264-268.
[45] DESPOT I, LJEVAK LEBEDA I, TOMASEVIC N. Social reading-the reader on digital margins[J]. Libellarium:časopis za istraživanja u području informacijskih i srodnih znanosti, 2016, 9(1):185-196.
[46] LI W, MAO Y, ZHOU L. The impact of interactivity on user satisfaction in digital social reading:social presence as a mediator[J]. International journal of human-computer interaction, 2021, 37(17):1636-1647.
[47] TAUSCZIK Y R, PENNEBAKER J W. The psychological meaning of words:LIWC and computerized text analysis methods[J]. Journal of language and social psychology, 2010, 29(1):24-54.
[48] GUNIA B C, BARNES C M, SAH S. The morality of larks and owls:unethical behavior depends on chronotype as well as time of day[J]. Psychological science, 2014, 25(12):2272-2274.
[49] NUSSBAUM M C. Upheavals of thought:the intelligence of emotions[M]. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2003.
[50] LANGER E J, RODIN J. The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged:a field experiment in an institutional setting[J]. Journal of personality and social psychology, 1976, 34(2):191-198.
[51] LUCK A, PEARSON S, MADDEM G, et al. Effects of video information on precolonoscopy anxiety and knowledge:a randomised trial[J]. The lancet, 1999, 354(9195):2032-2035.
[52] KELLEY H H, MICHELA J L. Attribution theory and research[J]. Annual review of psychology, 1980, 31(1):457-501.
[53] BRATSLAVSKY E, MURAVEN M, TICE D M. Ego depletion:is the active self a limited resource?[J]. Journal of personality and social psychology, 1998, 74(5):1252-1265.
[54] MAZAR N, AMIR O, ARIELY D. The dishonesty of honest people:a theory of self-concept maintenance[J]. Journal of marketing research, 2008, 45(6):633-644.
[55] LERNER M J, LERNER M J. The belief in a just world[M]. New York:Springer, 1980.
[56] ADLER A. Study of organ inferiority and its psychical compensation:a contribution to clinical medicine[M]. New York:Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, 1917.
[57] TSENG S S, YEH H C, YANG S. Promoting different reading comprehension levels through online annotations[J]. Computer assisted language learning, 2015, 28(1):41-57.
[58] CHEN C M, LI M C, CHEN T C. A web-based collaborative reading annotation system with gamification mechanisms to improve reading performance[J]. Computers&education, 2020, 144:103697.
[59] ZUMBACH J, MOHRAZ M. Cognitive load in hypermedia reading comprehension:influence of text type and linearity[J]. Computers in human behavior, 2008, 24(3):875-887.
[60] KERKHOF G A. Inter-individual differences in the human circadian system:a review[J]. Biological psychology, 1985, 20(2):83-112.
[61] KULKARNI S, RODD S F. Context aware recommendation systems:a review of the state of the art techniques[J]. Computer science review, 2020, 37:100255.
Options
Outlines

/

〈 〉

    Copyrights © LIS Press Co., Ltd. Reproduction is prohibited without permission.