20世纪80年代后兴趣研究述评

Interest research: a literature review and projection of its future

兴趣是心理学和教育学领域中一个非常重要的概念,20世纪80年代以前兴趣研究很少受到人们的重视,直到80年代以后,研究者才开始对兴趣进行深入的研究,区分出了个人兴趣和情景兴趣,特别是对情景兴趣在文本阅读中的作用进行了大量的实证研究,指出了基于文本的、基于任务的、基于知识的兴趣对文本阅读的理解有着重要影响。但是,兴趣研究还存在许多亟待解决的问题,它将成为今后兴趣研究的新课题。

Interest is a very important concept in psychology and education. This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical research on this subject. But it was not until 1980s that researchers began to give attention to the area and later in-depth study in the form of empirical research commenced. Interest research distinguishes two broad categories: personal and situational interest. The former is spontaneous and context-specific whereas the latter is enduring and context-general. The findings show that text-based interest, task-based interest and knowledge-based interest can produce vital influence on reading comprehension. But problems of various kinds still exist in the research in this area.