Expressive writing moderates the relation between intrusive thoughts and depressive symptoms
Expressive writing moderates the relation between intrusive thoughts and depressive symptoms
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.73.5.1030
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发表时间：
1997-11-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Lepore, SJ
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作者：
Lepore, SJ
作者调查了表现性写作是否通过减少与事件相关的侵入性想法或通过使人们对此类想法不敏感来增强对压力事件(研究生入学考试)的情绪适应。实验组的参与者被要求写下他们对考试最深的想法和感受，从考试前1个月(时间1)到3天(时间2)，抑郁症状显著下降。对照组的参与者写的是一个琐碎的话题，在同一时期内，他们保持了相对较高的抑郁症状水平。富于表现力的写作不影响侵扰性思维的频率，但它缓和了侵扰性思维对抑郁症状的影响。具体地说，在控制组中，时间1的侵入性想法与时间2的抑郁症状呈正相关，而在表现力写作组中与症状无关。
The author investigated whether expressive writing enhances emotional adaptation to a stressful event (graduate entrance exams) by reducing event-related intrusive thoughts or by desensitizing people to such thoughts. Participants in the experimental group, who were instructed to write their deepest thoughts and feelings about the exam, exhibited a significant decline in depressive symptoms from 1 month (Time 1) to 3 days (Time 2) before the exam. Participants in the control group, who wrote about a trivial topic, maintained a relatively high level of depressive symptoms over this same period. Expressive writing did not affect the frequency of intrusive thoughts, but it moderated the impact of intrusive thoughts on depressive symptoms. Specifically, intrusive thoughts at Time 1 were positively related to depressive symptoms at Time 2 in the control group and were unrelated to symptoms in the expressive writing group.