Austenfeld Jennifer L, Paolo Anthony M, Stanton Annette L
University of Kansas, USA.
J Pers. 2006 Feb;74(1):267-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2005.00375.x.
A randomized, controlled trial compared writing about emotional topics (EMO) to writing about goals as the "best possible self" (BPS; after King, 2001) and evaluated emotional approach coping, i.e., efforts to cope through processing and expressing emotion, as a moderator of writing effects on psychological and physical health in 64 third-year medical students. In participants with higher baseline hostility, the EMO condition was associated with less hostility at 3 months compared to the BPS and control conditions. Emotional processing (EP) and emotional expression (EE) moderated the effect of experimental condition on depressive symptoms at 3 months; high EP/EE participants reported fewer depressive symptoms in the EMO condition, whereas low EP/EE individuals reported fewer depressive symptoms in the BPS condition compared to the EMO and control conditions. A moderating effect of EP on physical health was also identified, such that low EP individuals who wrote about goals (BPS) had fewer health care visits at 3 months compared to low EP participants in the EMO and control conditions.
一项随机对照试验将书写情感主题（EMO）与书写“可能最好的自我”目标（BPS；参照金，2001年）进行了比较，并评估了情感应对方式，即通过处理和表达情感来应对的努力，作为书写对64名三年级医学生心理和身体健康影响的调节因素。在基线敌意较高的参与者中，与BPS和对照条件相比，EMO条件在3个月时与较低的敌意相关。情感处理（EP）和情感表达（EE）调节了实验条件对3个月时抑郁症状的影响；高EP/EE参与者在EMO条件下报告的抑郁症状较少，而低EP/EE个体在BPS条件下报告的抑郁症状比在EMO和对照条件下少。还发现了EP对身体健康的调节作用，即与EMO和对照条件下的低EP参与者相比，书写目标（BPS）的低EP个体在3个月时的医疗就诊次数较少。
