Benefits of expressive writing in lowering rumination and depressive symptoms
Benefits of expressive writing in lowering rumination and depressive symptoms
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DOI：
10.1016/j.beth.2006.01.004
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发表时间：
2006-09-01
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3.7
通讯作者：
Pennebaker, James W.
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作者：
Gortner, Eva-Maria;Rude, Stephanie S.;Pennebaker, James W.
易患抑郁症的大学生（既往抑郁症状加重，当前抑郁症状较低）连续三天在表达性写作或对照条件下写作。正如预测的那样，在情绪调节问卷（Gross & John，2003）的抑制量表中得分高于中位数的参与者在 6 个月的评估中表现出与对照条件相比，在表达性写作中写作时的抑郁症状显着降低。额外的分析表明，治疗效果是由沉思反应量表的变化而不是反刍反应量表的反射量表所介导的（Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow，1991）。预计可以增强治疗效果的“助推器”写作课程未能产生显着效果。
Depression-vulnerable college students (with both elevated prior depressive symptoms and low current depressive symptoms) wrote on 3 consecutive days in either an expressive writing or a control condition. As predicted, participants scoring above the median on the suppression scale of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross & John, 2003) showed significantly lower depression symptoms at the 6-month assessment when they wrote in the expressive writing versus the control condition. Additional analyses revealed that treatment benefits were mediated by changes in the Brooding but not the Reflection scale of the Ruminative Response Scale (Nolen-Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991). A "booster" writing session predicted to enhance treatment benefits failed to have a significant effect.