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- Title
The Emotional Healing Efficacy of Romance Fiction for Undergraduates with Love-related Emotional Disturbance Problems: An Exploratory Research.
- Authors
Chen Su-may Sheih
- 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
MENTAL healing; EMOTIONAL trauma; ROMANCE language fiction; INTERPERSONAL relations; INTIMACY (Psychology); SEPARATION (Psychology); UNDERGRADUATES
- Publication
Journal of Library & Information Studies, 2014, Vol 12, Issue 2, p39
- ISSN
1606-7509
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6182/jlis.2014.12(2).039