A Study on Emotional Healing Fiction for Undergraduate Students

Abstract

Undergraduate students may encounter emotional disturbance when they are under pressures. Healing reading may effectively soothe negative emotions as the readers relate themselves to the fictional characters and life situations in the books. This study employs semi-structured in-depth interview to study 21 undergraduates’ experiences of emotional disturbances, the kinds of fiction they 1 國立臺灣大學圖書資訊學系 Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 2 國立臺灣大學圖書館 National Taiwan University Library, Taipei, Taiwan * 通訊作者 Corresponding Author: 陳書梅Chen Su-may Sheih, Email: synn@ntu.edu.tw