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- Title
Experiential Self-Focus Writing as a Facilitator of Processing an Interpersonal Hurt.
- Authors
Yu‐Hsin Liao, Kelly; Wei, Meifen; Russell, Daniel W.; Abraham, W. Todd
- Abstract
Objectives: This study examined the effects of experiential self-focus writing on changes in psychological outcomes (i.e., unforgiveness and negative affect) after an interpersonal hurt and the buffering effects of experiential self-focus writing on the association between anger rumination and these psychological outcomes. Design: A sample of 182 college students who had experienced interpersonal hurt were randomly assigned to either the experiential self-focus writing condition, in which participants wrote about their feelings and experiences related to the hurt, or to a control writing condition in which they wrote about a recent neutral event. Results: Latent growth curve analyses indicated that changes in unforgiveness over time did not differ between the experiential self-focus writing and the control writing conditions. However, relative to the control writing condition, negative affect decreased faster during writing and increased more slowly at follow-ups in the experiential self-focus writing condition. Conclusions: The results supported the hypothesis that negative affect resulting from an interpersonal hurt would significantly decrease over time among participants in the experiential self-focus writing group compared with the control group. Implications of experiential self-focus writing for interpersonal hurt and directions for future studies are discussed.
- Subjects
NARRATION; INTERPERSONAL relations &; psychology; FORGIVENESS; ANGER; GROWTH curves (Statistics); PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2012, Vol 68, Issue 10, p1089
- ISSN
0021-9762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jclp.21886