The Emotional Healing Efficacy of Romance Fiction for Undergraduates with Love-related Emotional Disturbance Problems: An Exploratory Research
Resource
Journal of Library and Information Studies, v.12 n. 2 pp.39-79
Journal
圖書資訊學刊
Journal Volume
v.12 n.2 pp.39-79
Pages
-
Date Issued
2014-12
Date
2014-12
Author(s)
Abstract
Previous studies have revealed that emotional healing reading materials can sooth readers’ negative emotions. Among the various reading materials, the romance fiction is a genre of high healing efficacy for undergraduate students who encounter love-related emotional disturbance. To explore the problems they experience in love relationships and the emotional healing efficacy of romance fictions for such situations, this study first employed content analysis to identify a list of fictions that are considered of emotional healing efficacy. It continued to conduct an online survey to examine the emotional healing process in undergraduate students’ reading experiences. The results showed that undergraduate students often experienced one-sided love, ambiguous relationship, lack of intimacy, rivalry, conflict, and breakup. It also identified 18 Chinese romance titles that may assist the readers to go through the emotional healing stages of identification, catharsis, and insight.
Subjects
Romance Fiction
Emotional Healing
Developmental Bibliotherapy
Love-related Emotional Disturbance Problems
Undergraduate
Publisher
Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University
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