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Putting stress into words: Health, linguistic, and therapeutic implications

Pennebaker, James W.·1993·Behaviour Research and Therapy
DOI 10.1016/0005-7967(93)90105-4
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When individuals are asked to write or talk about personally upsetting experiences, significant improvements in physical health are found. Analyses of subjects' writing about traumas indicate that those whose health improves most tend to use a higher proportion of negative emotion words than positive emotion words. Independent of verbal emotion expression, the increasing use of insight, causal, and associated cognitive words over several days of writing is linked to health improvement. That is, the construction of a coherent story together with the expression of negative emotions work together in therapeutic writing. Evidence of these processes are also seen in specific links between word production and immediate autonomic nervous system activity. Implications for therapy and for considering the mind and body as fluid, dynamic systems are discussed.

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  • According to Pennebaker's cognitive processing model, disclosing what was formerly undisclosed eliminates negative affect and processing and induces reappraisal.

    “According to Pennebaker’s (1993) cognitive processing model, a key component of the link between cognitive changes and beneficial outcomes is the process by which disclosing what was formerly undisclosed eliminates negative affect and processing and induces reappraisal.”

    From Psychological, Relational, and Emotional Effects of Self-Disclosure After Conversations With a Chatbot (2018) · cites this paper as Pennebaker, 1993

  • These data confirm prior research that intimate disclosure leads to beneficial downstream outcomes through these mechanisms, as the Perceived Understanding and Disclosure Processing Hypotheses suggest.

    “These data confirm prior research that intimate disclosure leads to beneficial downstream outcomes through these mechanisms, as the Perceived Understanding and Disclosure Processing Hypotheses suggest (Pennebaker, 1993; Reis et al., 2017).”

    From Psychological, Relational, and Emotional Effects of Self-Disclosure After Conversations With a Chatbot (2018) · cites this paper as Pennebaker, 1993

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Authors
Pennebaker, J. W.
Venue
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1993-07
Volume
31
Issue
6
Pages
539-548
ISSN
0005-7967
DOI
10.1016/0005-7967(93)90105-4
Cited by
672
References
2
Language
en
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)

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