Interest-related Psychological Factors Influencing Preservice Teachers' Attention to Health and Medical Care Reading

This study aimed to analyze medical book borrowing patterns at Nanjing Normal University from 2014 to 2023, with the goal of understanding borrowing behaviors and the discriminative power of psychological factors for better medical resource utilization and library collection development.

Data from 3,934 readers and 3,746 borrowed books were analyzed using thematic word frequency, ROC curves, factor analysis, and discriminant analysis. These methods were used to identify themes, assess model performance, extract key behavioral factors, and differentiate borrowing patterns among schools.

ROC analysis revealed that test variable, i.e., “active year”, has low discriminative ability in predicting outcomes among male readers, while the model based on the psychology school data demonstrated moderate classification performance. Factor analysis identified four thematic areas with significant correlations. Discriminant analysis revealed significant differences among departments, with varying contributions from the identified factors. Notably, Factor 4 (F4) consistently exhibited a negative influence across all departments.

The findings presented in this study will enhance our understanding of medical resources, explore factor relationships, and inform library collection development.

This study enhances our understanding of borrowing patterns, offering practical implications for libraries to better meet user needs.