Greenberg & Stone, 1992: Writing about disclosed or undisclosed traumas decreased physical symptoms of severe trauma among students
Reference:
Greenberg, M. A., & Stone, A. A. (1992). Writing about disclosed versus undisclosed traumas: Immediate and long-term effects on mood and health. Journal of personality and social psychology, 63(1), 75-84.
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Asking undergraduates to write about previously undisclosed or previously disclosed traumas reduced reported physical symptoms over the next several months relative to a control condition but only when these traumas were severe.
Psychological Process:
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
What is the Person Trying to Understand?
Selves (My Own and Others')Approach to Desired Meaning
What about it?
Changing beliefs about emotions, states, and the valence of the self-conceptHow?
Psychological Question Addressed
Are negative past emotions, states, and experiences ongoing and undermining?Are negative past emotions, states, and experiences ongoing and undermining?Psychological Question Addressed
Are negative past emotions, states, and experiences ongoing and undermining?Psychological Process 2:
Psychological Process 3:
Social Area:
Health
Intervention Technique:
Active reflection, on negative experiences