現今大學生面臨生活上的多重壓力,易衍生疏離、焦慮、煩躁及沮喪等諸多負面情緒。而閱讀具有不涉及隱私、不傷自尊的優點,因此正可作為大學生自我教育與處理情緒問題的管道,此即發展性書目療法之運用。相關文獻顯示,在各類型圖書資訊資源中,小說乃是大學生喜愛之情緒療癒閱讀素材。爰此,研究者採用半結構式深度訪談法,以台北縣與台北市的21位大學生為研究對象,探討大學生在遭遇情緒困擾問題時所閱讀之小說類型,並探究大學生閱讀小說後產生認同、淨化,或領悟等情緒療癒歷程,從而了解各類型小說對大學生的情緒療癒效用為何。研究結果發現,愛情、寫實、奇幻、武俠、勵志、歷史,以及科幻小說具情緒療癒效用,而推理、網路、心理以及驚悚小說具有部分之認同、淨化或領悟歷程,同時,閱讀小說後所獲致的情緒療癒效用因人而異。
In modern society, undergraduates may encounter multiple pressures and thus feel the sense of alienation, anxiety, disturbance and depression. For undergraduates, reading can be independently conducted without the intervention of an instructor; therefore, undergraduates who feel reluctant to expose private emotions to counselors can help themselves through the reading of emotional healing books. This is the application of bibliotherapy. Among various resources, fiction can serve as an appropriate emotional reading material. The researcher deployed semi-structured in-depth interview, and interviewed 21 undergraduates in Taipei City and Taipei County. This study is aimed to understand the kinds of fictions undergraduates read when they are upset and to analyze the emotional healing process of identification, catharsis, and insight so that the emotional healing efficacy can be evaluated. The findings showed that romance, realistic fiction, fantasy, martial arts novel, inspirational fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction can provide full process of emotional healing efficacy. However, detective fiction, online novel, psychological fiction, and horror fiction can only provide parts of the healing process. Besides, the healing efficacy of a specific fiction is different from reader to reader.