Response Inhibition and Visuospatial Ability Among Manga Reading And Non Manga Reading Population
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Response Inhibition, Visuospatial Ability, Manga Reader and Non Manga ReaderAbstract
The present study was a quantitative comparative research design. The aim of the present study was to examine the influence of manga reading on the level of response inhibition and visual spatial ability among manga readers by comparing the difference among manga reading population and non-manga reading population. Data was collected from Manga readers and Non-Manga readers living in India within the age group of 15 to 25 years. Judgment (purposive) sampling technique was used for the study. A sample of 30 Manga readers consisting of 15 males and 15 females and 30 non manga readers, consisting of 15 makes and 15 females were taken for the study. The tools used for the study were the stroop task and mental rotation task on psytoolkit. After the data was collected it was analysed IBM SPSS. Descriptive statistics, Inferential statistics, Independent Samples T-Test was used to analyse the data. The results show that there is no significant difference between the visuospatial ability between the manga reading population and the non-manga reading population. The study reveals that there is a significant difference between the processing speed or response inhibition ability between the manga reading population and the non-manga reading population. When it comes to gender differences, it was observed in the study that there are no significant differences observed among the males and females of manga reading population and non-manga reading population for both, levels of response inhibition and visuospatial ability.
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