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  • Psychology
  • Trauma Studies
  • Writing Therapy

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  • Expressive writing is a therapeutic technique.
  • Emotional processing involves depth and order of experiencing.
  • Trauma survivors often benefit from therapeutic writing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how expressive writing affects emotional processing.
  • To examine the relationship between depth of emotional processing and anxiety.
  • To compare different writing instructions based on emotional processing theories.

Main Methods:

  • 110 undergraduates with trauma histories participated.
  • Participants engaged in expressive writing based on different theories.
  • Narratives were coded for emotional depth and key emotions.
  • Anxiety levels were measured before and after the writing intervention.

Main Results:

  • Emotional processing depth varied by writing condition and session.
  • Increased depth of emotional processing was linked to reduced anxiety.
  • A significant negative correlation (r = -.209, p < .05) was observed.

Conclusions:

  • Writing instructions can influence emotional processing over time.
  • Facilitating deeper emotional processing may reduce anxiety.
  • Expressive writing holds potential as an anxiety-reduction tool.