Objective and Subjective Measures of Children's Engagement With Auditory Narratives.
Purpose: Listening engagement describes the extent to which an individual recruits cognitive resources for a listening task, potentially contributing to the experience of listening effort--the subjective experience of exerting cognitive resources to process sounds. This study explored the use of spo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 69; no. 4; pp. 1814 - 1825 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=192982193&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 192982193 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2026 vid: 69 iid: 4 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 192982193 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00646 ppf: 1814 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Objective and Subjective Measures of Children's Engagement With Auditory Narratives. aug: au: Robinson, Sophia M. H. Platkin, Rafaela Bobbitt, Sarah Van Hedger, Stephen Butler, Blake E. affil: Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada Centre for Brain and Mind, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada Department of Psychology, Huron University College, London, Ontario, Canada National Centre for Audiology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada su: Self-evaluation Task performance Attention Storytelling Children Statistical correlation Fantasy (Psychology) Cognitive testing Research funding Data analysis Receiver operating characteristic curves Mann Whitney U Test Descriptive statistics Statistics Friedman test (Statistics) Research Auditory perception Speech perception Reaction time sug: subj: Self-evaluation Task performance Attention Storytelling Children Statistical correlation Fantasy (Psychology) Cognitive testing Research funding Data analysis Receiver operating characteristic curves Mann Whitney U Test Descriptive statistics Statistics Friedman test (Statistics) Research Auditory perception Speech perception Reaction time ab: Purpose: Listening engagement describes the extent to which an individual recruits cognitive resources for a listening task, potentially contributing to the experience of listening effort--the subjective experience of exerting cognitive resources to process sounds. This study explored the use of spoken narrative stimuli to assess two different measures of listening engagement in children and objectively assess their engagement in stories. Method: Seventy children (31 female; M = 10.3 years) between the ages of 9-12 years listened to two engaging stories containing different child-preferred themes and a non-engaging control story lacking these themes. Engagement was measured using two methods: a self-report measure (a version of the Story World Absorption Scale) and a performance-based measure (a speeded directional judgment task) presented concurrently with the stories. Results: Stories with child-preferred themes were rated as more engaging than the control story via self-report. Moreover, secondary task reaction times were significantly slower while listening to engaging stories than the control story, suggesting that engaging stories placed higher demands on cognitive resources. Intersubject correlation analyses revealed that reaction times across the duration of engaging stories were more consistent than across the control story, suggesting that reaction times reflected a shared response to narrative content. Conclusion: Together, these results suggest that children's engagement with auditory narratives can be measured objectively and that engagement varies across stories in a manner that is qualitatively similar to adults. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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