Is expressive writing effective in decreasing depression and increasing forgiveness and emotional wellbeing of preadolescents?
Abstract Expressive writing (EW) can be an effective way to alter maladaptive emotional reactions to stressful life events, although little is known about how pre-adolescents may benefit from it. In this quasi-experimental study, we compared measures of depression, anger, forgiveness, positive and n...
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oai:scielo:S0718-480820170003002132018-01-26Is expressive writing effective in decreasing depression and increasing forgiveness and emotional wellbeing of preadolescents?Barcaccia,BarbaraSchaeffer,TylerBalestrini,VivianaRizzo,FabioMattogno,FrancescaBaiocco,RobertoMancini,FrancescoSchneider,Barry Howard Expressive Writing Pre-adolescents Depression Anger Forgiveness Abstract Expressive writing (EW) can be an effective way to alter maladaptive emotional reactions to stressful life events, although little is known about how pre-adolescents may benefit from it. In this quasi-experimental study, we compared measures of depression, anger, forgiveness, positive and negative affect in pre-adolescents before and after EW in both an experimental group undergoing the EW paradigm and a control group (N=138). No significant effects between control and experimental groups were found for the considered variables, except for positive and negative affect. We suggest potential reasons accounting for these results. Given that the theorised mechanisms involved in the EW paradigm include executive functioning abilities, it is possible that preadolescents may not be able to benefit from it, due to not fully developed executive functioning skills. Our results provide useful information in order to better design future studies and prevention/intervention programmes to be implemented with preadolescents.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Chilena de Psicología ClínicaTerapia psicológica v.35 n.3 20172017-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-48082017000300213en10.4067/S0718-48082017000300213 |
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Expressive Writing Pre-adolescents Depression Anger Forgiveness Barcaccia,Barbara Schaeffer,Tyler Balestrini,Viviana Rizzo,Fabio Mattogno,Francesca Baiocco,Roberto Mancini,Francesco Schneider,Barry Howard Is expressive writing effective in decreasing depression and increasing forgiveness and emotional wellbeing of preadolescents? |
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Abstract Expressive writing (EW) can be an effective way to alter maladaptive emotional reactions to stressful life events, although little is known about how pre-adolescents may benefit from it. In this quasi-experimental study, we compared measures of depression, anger, forgiveness, positive and negative affect in pre-adolescents before and after EW in both an experimental group undergoing the EW paradigm and a control group (N=138). No significant effects between control and experimental groups were found for the considered variables, except for positive and negative affect. We suggest potential reasons accounting for these results. Given that the theorised mechanisms involved in the EW paradigm include executive functioning abilities, it is possible that preadolescents may not be able to benefit from it, due to not fully developed executive functioning skills. Our results provide useful information in order to better design future studies and prevention/intervention programmes to be implemented with preadolescents. |
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Barcaccia,Barbara Schaeffer,Tyler Balestrini,Viviana Rizzo,Fabio Mattogno,Francesca Baiocco,Roberto Mancini,Francesco Schneider,Barry Howard |
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Barcaccia,Barbara Schaeffer,Tyler Balestrini,Viviana Rizzo,Fabio Mattogno,Francesca Baiocco,Roberto Mancini,Francesco Schneider,Barry Howard |
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Is expressive writing effective in decreasing depression and increasing forgiveness and emotional wellbeing of preadolescents? |
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Is expressive writing effective in decreasing depression and increasing forgiveness and emotional wellbeing of preadolescents? |
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Is expressive writing effective in decreasing depression and increasing forgiveness and emotional wellbeing of preadolescents? |
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Is expressive writing effective in decreasing depression and increasing forgiveness and emotional wellbeing of preadolescents? |
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is expressive writing effective in decreasing depression and increasing forgiveness and emotional wellbeing of preadolescents? |
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Sociedad Chilena de Psicología Clínica |
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