APPENDIX

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Introduction
Reading is one of the primary mechanism by which we exercise our
intellectual faculties and increase our knowledge of the world (Stanovich and
Cunningham, 1993). The acquisition of reading ability is of little value to a person unless
he puts it to use in reading various type of materials spontaneously and voluntarily. In
the past few years there have been a number of investigations into interracial
friendships and romantic relationships (Davidson, 1992). Interracial dating is among the
fastest growing non-traditional dating interest, averaging at about 5% of all marriages in
the US (Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1998). The problems that are set forth
for the present generation is how do they feel about interracial dating, what is socially
acceptable for them to feel about interracial dating, how their parents would react to
interracial dating, and what they will honestly admit publicly as their views on the subject
at hand. It is important to study college students behaviors and attitudes on interracial
dating. They are beginning to explore their tastes at business, social, and sexual levels,
which leaves them prime for confusion of their real ideals toward relationships and the
ideals that they have been taught to have. This conflict of ideals, between the students
true ideals or the ideals that they have been taught to believe, brings us to ponder on
what attitudes students present to the public. In a previous study (Knox, 2000) it was
found that 49.6% of participants said that they agreed with interracial dating. Of these
83% were African-Americans. Knox studied the relationship of acceptance of interracial
relationships among college students and greater diversity in colleges and universities.
He believed that greater diversity would result in more open-minded students and a
greater appreciation of interracial relationships. It was found that African Americans
were twice as likely as Caucasians (83% vs. 43%) to be open to interracial
relationships. Davidson (1992) also found that African Americans have a more favorable
attitude toward interracial romantic relationships than Caucasians, which corroborates
Knoxs findings. Knox found that among college students, diversity brought more open-
minded thinking. This brings us to another conflict of Caucasian teachings versus
African American teachings.
The widely-held belief that a positive reading attitudes is related to
(Mitchell and Ley 1996). The study the test of self reported attitudes and behavior of
high school students toward & reading generally yielded and request valued reading for
its contribution to school success, least for their own employment, and reported low
levels of voluntary reading. Social standards also influence both attitudes and actions
toward interracial dating. Social standards in ones environment may influence a
persons decision on what their own thoughts may be on dating among different races.
For students, school is the dominant form of social environment that they encounter,
therefore school standards and qualities create the social standards in students lives. A
schools racial composition and the norms of social distance in that environment
influence students chances of developing interests or actual interracial relationships
(Wilensky, 2002). Wilensky reviewed Joyners (2000) study on interethnic relationships
among adolescents as tied in to the social structure of schools. Joyner found that nearly
a fifth of the students surveyed out of 100,000 students from the ages of 12-18, have
participated in an interracial relationship. This is a large number of students, but they
were from large city and rural schools with diverse and homogenous student
populations, therefore only representing the city and rural populations of students and
excluding the urban and suburban communities. Along with Knoxs study, Joyner still
leaves out family issues that our study takes into consideration.
A review of literature on reading research have not or by show that
things can effect reading behavior are multi-factorial but a plethora of relationships how
been found related to factors affecting the reacting behavior (Pandian, 2000). However,
the major factors that affect reading behavior identified in the literature include
are/domains namely: 1.Students characteristics 2.home factors and School factors. The
variable made up Pandian model with into evening variable of composed by exposure to
language, attitudes toward reading and attitude toward language. We asked students to
freely express their opinions on different non-traditional dating couples and then asked if
they would participate in different dating styles and if their parents would agree with
those dating styles. To determine if parental influence, social desirability, or self -
deception occurred we followed the survey with a coupling exercise where the students
were asked to pair different people together. They were given two sheets of paper that
contained both six pictures and six interest captions. Every interest caption contained
information on a persons background, interests, and hobbies. Participants were then
asked to match each man with a woman who they deemed would make a good couple.
From this exercise we determined if they actively put together people of the same race
or people with the same interests. We expected that students would be willing to say
that they were accepting toward interracial dating, but their actions would reflect
otherwise. It was hypothesized that students actions will reflect the ideals of their
parents regarding interracial dating rather than their own. The main points of focus were
on students attitudes, their parents attitudes, and how the students actions would
compare to their stated attitudes.







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