Effects of writing about stressful experiences on the mental health of dormitory dwellers.

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This study was designed to examine the effects of writing about stressful experiences on the mental health of dormitory dwellers who had strong stress in their university life. The results of the profile of mood states (POMS) showed that writing about stressful experiences reduced effectively negative emotion(Depression-Dejection), fatigue of female college students.These results indicate the possibility that the effests of writing about stressful experiences were specifically effective for the mental health of female college students.