Experimental disclosure and its moderators: a meta-analysis.

J Frattaroli - Psychological bulletin, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
Disclosing information, thoughts, and feelings about personal and meaningful topics
(experimental disclosure) is purported to have various health and psychological …

How effective are expressive writing interventions for adolescents? A meta-analytic review

G Travagin, D Margola, TA Revenson - Clinical psychology review, 2015 - Elsevier
This meta-analysis evaluated the effects of the expressive writing intervention (EW;
Pennebaker & Beall, 1986) among adolescents. Twenty-one independent studies that …

Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing

KA Baikie, K Wilhelm - Advances in psychiatric treatment, 2005 - cambridge.org
Writing about traumatic, stressful or emotional events has been found to result in
improvements in both physical and psychological health, in non-clinical and clinical …

Resilience and posttraumatic growth: Recovery, resistance, and reconfiguration

SJ Lepore, TA Revenson - Handbook of posttraumatic growth, 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
Life is inevitably stressful, and there is tremendous variability in how people respond to and
manage life's stressors. This chapter strives to explain the diversity of human responses to …

The role of expressive writing in math anxiety.

D Park, G Ramirez, SL Beilock - Journal of Experimental …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Math anxiety is a negative affective reaction to situations involving math. Previous work
demonstrates that math anxiety can negatively impact math problem solving by creating …

Taking pen to hand: evaluating theories underlying the written disclosure paradigm.

DM Sloan, BP Marx - Clinical psychology: Science and practice, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
In recent years the written disclosure paradigm has been related to improvements in
physical health in a number of populations. However, it still remains unclear why this …

A closer examination of the structured written disclosure procedure.

DM Sloan, BP Marx - Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
The current study examined psychological and physical health outcomes of the written
disclosure paradigm and the hypothesis that the principles of therapeutic exposure account …

Stress management through written emotional disclosure improves academic performance among college students with physical symptoms.

MA Lumley, KM Provenzano - Journal of Educational Psychology, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
This study tested whether writing about stressful events improves grade point averages
(GPAs) and whether decreases in writing-induced negative mood from the first to last day of …

Mending broken hearts: Effects of expressive writing on mood, cognitive processing, social adjustment and health following a relationship breakup

SJ Lepore, MA Greenberg - Psychology and Health, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Seventy-two male and 73 female undergraduates were randomly assigned to an
experimental group, in which they wrote expressively about a relationship breakup, or to a …

The effect of an expressive‐writing intervention for employees on emotional self‐efficacy, emotional intelligence, affect, and workplace incivility

BA Kirk, NS Schutte, DW Hine - Journal of Applied Social …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined the effect of an expressive‐writing paradigm intervention designed to
increase emotional self‐efficacy in employees. Participants in the intervention condition with …