The benefits of psychological displacement in diary writing when using different pronouns
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British Journal of Health Psychology,13(1),39-41.
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British Journal of Health Psychology
Pages
39-41
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2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Seih, Y. T.
Lin, Y. C.
Huang, C. L.
Peng, C. W.
Huang, S. P.
Abstract
This study examined a new emotional writing paradigm, that is PDDP. PDDP instructs participants to write diary in first-person pronoun first, and then narrate the same event from a different perspective using second-person pronoun. Finally, the participants write it again with third-person pronoun from yet another perspective. These three narrations were to be written in a consecutive sequential order. Results demonstrated that diary writers indeed benefited from features of PDDP. It also showed that highly anxious people received most long-term therapeutic effect from PDDP. We argue that PDDP enacts the needed mechanism to balance psychological distance prolonging and self-disclosure making in emotional writing.
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