A Study On The Effects Of Extra-curricular Reading On Pro-social Behavior Of Upper Primary School Students In Remote Rural Areas

In recent years,the Party and the State have attached great importance to the work of "reading for all".Children and teenagers are the key group to promote the "Reading for All" project in China,and their reading activities will have an important impact on their own socialization development.Our government and related departments attach great importance to the reading status of young children and take improving the reading quality of young children as an important direction of education reform.At present,the "rural revitalization" strategy and the "double reduction" policy are developing in parallel,and the education work in remote rural areas has achieved obvious results.However,due to certain objective constraints,compared with urban students of the same age group,there is a certain gap in the extracurricular reading level of young children in remote rural areas,and the social participation is not yet satisfactory.Therefore,how to improve the current situation of extracurricular reading of children in remote rural areas and enhance the level of pro-social behavior of this group has become a topic of great interest in the academic community.Based on this,this study used literature research,questionnaire survey and statistical analysis as the basis for pro-social behavior theory,and conducted a questionnaire survey on senior elementary school students studying in Lei Feng Hope Primary School in Xundian County,Yunnan Province,to investigate the effect of reading habits outside of class on the level of pro-social behavior of senior elementary school students through regression analysis and to test the mediating effect of comprehending social support.This paper first analyzes the effects of each variable from a demographic perspective.The specific data show that there are differences in extracurricular reading habits in terms of both gender and family factors,with boys having significantly higher reading literacy and reading cognition than girls;rural elementary school students have higher compliance,urgency,and emotionality than rural elementary school students,but there are no significant differences in grade level and only child status factors.The results of the data analysis showed that extracurricular reading practices positively influenced the level of pro-social behavior of upper elementary school students,and the effect of the two dimensions of reading motivation and reading behavior was particularly significant.The introduction of the perceived social support variable revealed that perceived social support partially mediated the relationship between extracurricular reading practices and pro-social behavior of upper elementary school students.Finally,the author discusses the current problems and causes of extracurricular reading for children in remote rural areas,and proposes feasible suggestions from three perspectives: school education services,parent-child communication and social policy support.The specific measures are that the government and relevant departments should increase the investment and inclination of education funds in rural areas,reasonably deploy reading resources,and promote digital reading development with the goal of narrowing the gap between urban and rural children’s extracurricular reading.In addition,schools and families should actively respond to the "double reduction" policy,form a "home-school association" mechanism,strengthen the reading companionship,improve the level of reading service support from teachers and peers,and build a systematic extracurricular reading system.In addition,civil society organizations and enterprises and institutions should take the lead of schools,families and the government to jointly strengthen the construction and development of the reading system and encourage more social forces to participate in extracurricular reading promotion activities,forming an integrated model of top and bottom linkage.This study investigates the influence of extracurricular reading habits on pro-social behavior of children and adolescents in remote rural areas according to China’s cultural background and education and teaching system,enriches the research content of prosocial behavior theory,broadens the research perspective of reading activities and prosocial behavior,proposes measures to improve the current situation of extracurricular reading of children and adolescents in remote rural areas from the perspective of environmental interventions such as government-led,home-school association and social support,helps students actively participate in interpersonal interactions and enhance their ability to adapt to society on their own through extracurricular reading activities,and provides certain reference values for efforts to create a good reading atmosphere and promote the prosperity of a learning society.