CONFRONTING A TRAUMATIC EVENT - TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF INHIBITION AND DISEASE
CONFRONTING A TRAUMATIC EVENT - TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF INHIBITION AND DISEASE
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DOI：
10.1037/0021-843x.95.3.274
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发表时间：
1986-08-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
BEALL, SK
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作者：
PENNEBAKER, JW;BEALL, SK
根据以前的研究，不向他人吐露创伤事件与压力相关疾病的发病率增加有关。这项研究是一项初步调查，旨在了解写创伤性事件是否会影响长期的健康测量，以及生理唤醒和负面情绪报告的短期指标。此外，我们还考察了与生理和自我报告变量最相关的创伤性事件(即认知、情感或两者兼而有之)的写作方面。46名健康的本科生连续4天写下个人创伤性生活事件或琐碎话题。除了健康中心的记录，在整个实验过程中还收集了生理测量和自我报告的情绪和身体症状。总体而言，写关于创伤事件的情绪和事实与论文后相对较高的血压和负面情绪有关，但在实验后的6个月内去健康中心就诊的人数较少。虽然这些发现和基本理论应该被认为是初步的，但它们直接与宣泄、自我表露和基于行为抑制的精神体学的一般理论有关。
According to previous work, failure to confide in others about traumatic events is associated with increased incidence of stress-related disease. The present study served as a preliminary investigation to learn if writing about traumatic events would influence long-term measures of health as well as short-term indicators of physiological arousal and reports of negative moods. In addition, we examined the aspects of writing about traumatic events (ie, cognitive, affective, or both) that are most related to physiological and self-report variables. Forty-six healthy undergraduates wrote about either personally traumatic life events or trivial topics on 4 consecutive days. In addition to health center records, physiological measures and self-reported moods and physical symptoms were collected throughout the experiment. Overall, writing about both the emotions and facts surrounding a traumatic event was associated with relatively higher blood pressure and negative moods following the essays, but fewer health center visits in the 6 months following the experiment. Although the findings and underlying theory should be considered preliminary, they bear directly on issues surrounding catharsis, self-disclosure, and a general theory of psychosomatics based on behavioral inhibition.