Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
J Trauma Stress. 2011 Oct;24(5):581-5. doi: 10.1002/jts.20679. Epub 2011 Sep 1.
The current study tested the effectiveness of a brief expressive writing intervention on the marital adjustment of 102 military couples recently reunited following a deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. Active duty soldiers and their spouses were randomly assigned to write about either their relationship or a nonemotional topic on 3 occasions on a single day. The resulting design included 4 couple-level writing topic conditions: soldier-expressive/spouse-expressive, soldier-expressive/spouse-control, soldier-control/spouse-expressive, and soldier-control/spouse-control. Participants completed marital adjustment measures before writing, 1 month, and 6 months after writing. When soldiers, but not spouses, did expressive writing, couples increased in marital satisfaction over the next month, particularly if the soldier had had high combat exposure.
本研究测试了一次简短的表达性写作干预对 102 对最近从伊拉克或阿富汗部署归来的军人夫妇婚姻调整的影响。现役士兵及其配偶被随机分配在一天内分 3 次撰写与关系或非情感话题相关的内容。研究结果包括 4 种夫妻层面的写作主题条件：士兵表达/配偶表达、士兵表达/配偶控制、士兵控制/配偶表达、士兵控制/配偶控制。参与者在写作前、写作后 1 个月和 6 个月分别完成婚姻调整测量。当士兵而不是配偶进行表达性写作时，夫妻双方在接下来的一个月里会增加婚姻满意度，特别是如果士兵有较高的战斗暴露水平。
