A principal-factor analysis was performed on intercorrelations among the 92 items from the Survey of Reading Attitudes, and the factors thus obtained were rotated to Varimax criterion. The sample of 315 fifth and sixth grade students was from a middle school located in rural northeastern Ohio. The following eight factors were obtained: Expressed Reading Difficulty, Reading as Enjoyment, Reading Group, Silent vs Oral Reading, Alternative Learning Modes, Reading as Direct Reinforcement, Comics, and Reading Anxiety. The factor structure for the present sample of white rural students was compared with the findings from other studies with diverse populations.
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