Present Homo legens: young adults' “circle of reading” in the context of the general features of intelligence
The article summarizes some results of the study of the relationship between the adolescent “circle of reading" and verbal, social and emotional intelligence. The authors' working-out of the psychological content of the concept of “circle of reading" is presented. The authors define the “Circle of reading" as a set of personally determined reading preferences that determine the individual choice of literary genres, plots and characters, works of those writers the content, writing style and semantics of whose texts correspond to the reader's own narratives, values and purposes. The “circle of reading” of a person is a sophisticated, multidimensional component of their personal subculture, the development of which is directly influenced by the family, educational environment and culture of society. The authors' technique “Circle of Reading” is presented. With the help of this technique and with the participation of 50 high school students and freshmen, the presence of significant relationships between verbal intelligence, the systematic reading and the provisional complexity of the content of the selected books has been proved, and the presence of correlations between social intelligence and the preference for specific literary types has been confirmed.