Program
Teaching M.A.
Number of Pages
96
Year Approved
2023
First Advisor
Bergeland, John
Second Reader
Lisa Silmser
Abstract
This thesis reviews 33 articles to examine a possible correlation between resilience and reading and how reading might be used to promote resilience in the secondary-school setting. Resilience is in need, especially post —COVID-19. Globally and locally, in Minnesota there is a mental health crisis among adolescents. This paper explores the protective factors of resilience, the empathic effects of reading, reading habits, reading interventions, and using reading as a therapeutic tool, called bibliotherapy. The discussion includes a correlation between gender and reading habits, sociability and fiction reading, pleasure reading and positive emotions, and traits of resilient individuals and how pleasure readers may possess those traits. Implications for future research should include reading intervention to find causation between reading and resilience.
Degree Name
Teaching M.A.
Document Type
Masterʼs thesis
Recommended Citation
Peterson, D. (2023). Promoting Resilience Through Reading in Secondary School [Masterʼs thesis, Bethel University]. Spark Repository. https://spark.bethel.edu/etd/1015