English abstract
The current study aims to identify university students' attitudes towards reading and
its relationship to some demographic variables in the universities of the Sultanate of
Oman. The study sample consisted of (1434) male and female university students
from various Omani public and private universities affiliated with the Ministry of
Higher Education. The study covered all (11) governorates of Oman. The researcher
adopted the descriptive analytical approach. The researcher employed a scale of
reading attitudes to collect the needed data. The study results showed that university
students' reading attitudes recorded a high degree. The results also showed there are
statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) in the university
students' attitudes toward reading in terms of gender in favor of females, as well as
there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) in
reading attitudes regarding the variables.
