ISSN:1359-107X    

DOI:10.1348/135910707X260117

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:2008

数据来源: WILEY

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This study tested the lower boundary of the dosage required to garner health benefits from written emotional expression. Participants wrote about either a personal trauma, a positive life experience, or a control topic for 2 minutes each day for 2 days. Emotion word usage in the essays was examined and physical health complaints were measured 4–6 weeks after the last writing session. Trauma and positive experience essays contained more emotional content than the control essays and such content was of a similar percentage to that demonstrated by past research. Both the trauma and the positive experience conditions reported fewer health complaints at follow‐up than the control condit

ISSN:1359-107X    

DOI:10.1348/135910707X250910

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:2008

数据来源: WILEY

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Objectives.In a test to determine whether a brief version of the expressive writing (EW) method was viable, 106 college students participated in an experiment dealing with the study of life transitions.Design.Individuals were randomly assigned to write for 15 minutes on three occasions: either three times separated by 10‐min break (1‐hour condition), 35‐min break (3‐hour condition), or 24‐hour break (3‐day condition).Methods.Participants were randomly assigned to write about their thoughts and feelings about the transitions (N= 80), or to describe daily behaviours surrounding the transitions in a non‐emotional way (N= 26).Results.The three emotional writing conditions did not vary in terms of their engagement with writing, their emotional reactions, short‐ or long‐term reactions to the intervention. Compared to controls, those in the experimental conditions evidenced fewer symptom reports 9 months after writing.Conclusions.The findings suggest that a brief 1‐hour EW is more emotionally demanding, but that it has comparable effects on physical symptoms as the tradi

ISSN:1359-107X    

DOI:10.1348/135910707X251171

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:2008

数据来源: WILEY

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Objective.Examine distress, emotional approach coping, and attachment as moderators of effects of written (WED) versus interpersonal (IED) emotional disclosure and written time management (WTM).Design/Methods.Fifty‐seven undergraduates with stressful experiences randomized to a single session of WED, IED, or WTM. Assessment of immediate reaction (NA) and 6‐week follow‐up (intrusions/avoidance).Results.Those with higher baseline distress had increased NA, avoidance and intrusions when engaged in WED or IED (vs. WTM). For emotional processors, WED (vs. IED) produced less NA, avoidance, and intrusions. Attachment predicted increased NA in WTM.Conclusions.Baseline distress and personality characteristics form boundary conditions for written discl

ISSN:1359-107X    

DOI:10.1348/135910707X250901

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:2008

数据来源: WILEY

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Objectives.Manipulations of the setting and instructions were tested for effects on language use and reported health following expressive writing (EW).Methods.Participants (N= 76) wrote in one of three conditions that differed by setting and the delivery of writing instructions.Results.The results showed that altering the context for EW influences participants' language use and their perceptions of the experience. There was no effect of conditions on self‐reported health.Conclusions.Future research should attend to the ways in which manipulations of EW context affect proposed mediators such as language, as well as outcomes of E

ISSN:1359-107X    

DOI:10.1348/135910707X250929

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:2008

数据来源: WILEY

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This study examined the effects of expressive narrative writing in 607 participants. Compared with a control group, the participants randomly assigned to write about their feelings and thoughts after the Madrid train attack on M11 report less negative emotions related to the recall of the collective trauma at a 2‐month follow‐up after the attacks. However, no effects were found on positive affect, probably because the study had only one writing session of brief duration. Stronger feelings of joy, use of positive words, and low use of negative words in the narratives predicted low emotional activation at follow

ISSN:1359-107X    

DOI:10.1348/135910707X251234

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:2008

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Objectives.The study compared emotionally disclosive writing and writing about goals as the ‘best possible self’ to a control condition and evaluated coping through emotional processing (EP) and expression (EE) as moderators of effects at 1‐month follow‐up.Method.Undergraduates (N= 63) were randomly assigned to emotional disclosure (EMO), best possible self (BPS), or a control condition (CTL). Outcomes were hostility, medical visits, depressive symptoms, physical symptoms, and blood pressure.Results.At 1 month, hostility decreased in high‐EP participants in EMO relative to BPS and decreased in low‐EP participants in BPS relative to EMO. Low‐EP participants had fewer medical visits in BPS, whereas high‐EP participants had more visits in BPS relative to other conditions.Conclusions.Benefits may accrue when the expressive task is matched to the individual's preferred

ISSN:1359-107X    

DOI:10.1348/135910707X250857

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:2008

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This study examined a new emotional writing paradigm, that is PDDP. PDDP instructs participants to write diary in first‐person pronoun first, and then narrate the same event from a different perspective using second‐person pronoun. Finally, the participants write it again with third‐person pronoun from yet another perspective. These three narrations were to be written in a consecutive sequential order. Results demonstrated that diary writers indeed benefited from features of PDDP. It also showed that highly anxious people received most long‐term therapeutic effect from PDDP. We argue that PDDP enacts the needed mechanism to balance psychological distance prolonging and self‐disclosure making in emotiona

ISSN:1359-107X    

DOI:10.1348/135910707X250875

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:2008

数据来源: WILEY

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Eighty‐nine Korean‐English and Spanish‐English bilingual students expressively wrote in their native language, English, or both languages on four occasions or were assigned to a non‐writing control group. In addition to self‐reports of adjustment, participants wore a recording device that sampled their natural language at 30‐second intervals every 12.5 min for 2 days both prior to and 1 month after the experiment. Overall, those assigned to the language switching condition showed the greatest improvements in adjustment and social

ISSN:1359-107X    

DOI:10.1348/135910707X251225

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:2008

数据来源: WILEY

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Objectives.To examine the potential relevance of alexithymia and induced cognitive–emotional processing for the efficacy of emotional disclosure.Methods.Associations were examined of alexithymia and emotional and cognitive word use with self‐assessed psychological and disease activity outcome in 37 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (23 females; mean age 58 years).Results.Cognitive and positive emotion word use during the disclosure sessions predicted improved psychological well‐being but not disease activity after the intervention. Negative emotion word use and alexithymia did not significantly predict outcome.Conclusion.Our study suggests that poor cognitive–emotional processing may impede the outcome of emotional disclosure interv

ISSN:1359-107X    

DOI:10.1348/135910707X251199

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:2008

数据来源: WILEY