相關文獻指出，愛情小說為大學生遭遇感情困擾問題時經常使用的素材類型。本研究首先透過網路內容分析法，蒐集具情緒療癒效用之愛情小說；隨後運用網路開放式問卷，探討我國大學生的感情困擾，以及愛情小說能否協助當事者緩解感情相關情緒困擾問題。根據研究結果，大學生常見的六種感情困擾問題為單戀、曖昧的關係、無人陪伴、遭遇情敵、愛情關係中的衝突、分手。而在本研究中，共有18本愛情小說能使填答者經歷認同、淨化、領悟之情緒療癒歷程。限於篇幅，本文選取最多填答者分享之五本愛情小說，闡明該書對當事者的情緒療癒效用為何。期藉本研究結果幫助大學生了解，個人能運用情緒療癒小說素材，緩解自身的感情困擾問題。同時，本研究結果期可供大學圖書館建置情緒療癒小說館藏，抑或大學生之親友、教師或助人工作者輔導大學生時之參考。

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.