Reliability and Validity of the Narrative Transportation Scale in Japanese

Abstract

Recent studies have focused on “transportation into narratives,” conceptualizing narrative experiences through which readers are lost in the narrative world. In the current study, we translated two scales assessing narrative transportation: the Narrative Transportation Scale (NTS-J), developed by Green and Brock (2000), and a short form of the Narrative Transportation Scale (NTS-SF), developed by Appel et al. (2015). Studies 1 (N=920) and 2 (N=275) demonstrated that these scales not only have sufficient reliability but also a correlation with scales measuring imaginative involvement and literary response, suggesting criterion-related validity. Confirmatory factor analysis based on a one-factor model expected from previous studies revealed that the NTS-J had low goodness-of-fit indices. However, the same analysis of the NTS-SF showed better indices. Although the factor structure of the NTS remains to be investigated, the Japanese version of the NTS contributes to psychological research on reading narratives and empirical studies in the literature.View full abstract