Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the variables need for structure and reading comprehension skill in a foreign language. Specifically it aims to identify differences in the scores of examined variables in the following categories: foreign language (EN, DE) and faculty (pf, ff, fpv, combi). For this reason, research was carried out in which 221 university students at CPU in Nitra participated. The PNS scale (Thomson et al., 2001) and tests of foreign language competence were used. The results showed that desire for structure correlates with reading comprehension skill negatively in the case of students of the Faculty of Arts. Need for structure correlates with study years of foreign language negatively in the case of students of the Faculty of Education. Statistically significant differences were proven in personal need for structure and response to lack of structure between the students of the Faculty of Arts and Natural Sciences.Key words: personal need for structure, reading comprehension skill, foreign language, facultyOSOBNA POTREBA STRUKTURY A CITANIE S POROZUMENIM V CUDZOM JAZYKUSuhrn: Cielom studie je skumanie vztahu medzi potrebou struktury a citanim s porozumenim v cudzom jazyku a identifikovat rozdiely jednotlivých premenných na urovni faktorov: cudzi jazyk (DE, EN) a fakulta (pf, ff, fpv, combi). Na vzorke 221 studentov Univerzity Konstantina Filozofa v Nitre boli pouzite výskumne metody skala PNS (Thomson a kol., 2001) a testy cudzojazycnej sposobilosti. Výsledky ukazali, ze zelanie struktury negativne koreluje s citanim s porozumenim u studentov Filozofickej fakulty. Potreba struktury negativne koreluje s dlzkou studia cudzieho jazyka u studentov Pedagogickej fakulty. Statisticky významne rozdielnosti v osobnej potrebe struktury a v reakcii na chýbanie struktury sa ukazali medzi studentmi Filozofickej fakulty a Fakulty prirodných vied.INTRODUCTIONThe subject, personal need for structure, has been frequently examined in scientific literature, but mostly in terms of the relationship between personal need for structure and stereotypes, bias, ambiguity, tolerance, intolerance to ambiguity, anxiety or rigidity (Neuberg, Newsom, 1993; Sarmany-Schuller, 1999; Kruglanski, Webster, 1996, 200; Stangor, 2000; Thomson et al., 2001, and others). However, in the context of the linguistics variable, the personal need for structure has not yet been explored deeply or analyzed in relation to reading comprehension skill. Stranovska et al. (2013) proved a negative relationship between the need for structure and verbal intelligence (the lower the personal need for structure, the higher verbal intelligence, see Stranovska et al., 2013).Reading comprehension in a foreign language does not represent a uniform process. It is affected by language and cognitive processes. Ehlers (1998), through her findings, pointed out that the studies explaining or dealing with the effect of linguistic and cognitive variables on reading comprehension skill in a foreign language are absent. She sees further exploration in studies explain ing the relationships between cognitive and linguistic variables.The focus of this study is to find out if there is a relationship between reading comprehension skill in a foreign language and need for structure as an individual's categorization activity. We want to investigate whether reading comprehension skill (understanding of texts written in foreign languages) is related to the desire for structure (simple organization of foreign-language texts) or is related to the response to lack of structure (response to cognitive load or response to unpredictable situations). Furthermore, we investigate the differences between the examined variables in the categories - language (English EN and German DE) and faculty - (Faculty of Education pf, Faculty of Arts ff, Faculty of Natural Sciences fpv and their combination combi). The major programs for which the students enrolled were teaching programs in the natural sciences, education, and arts. …