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Arden L Corter1, Keith J Petrie
1Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
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 EW.
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