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Structured writing about current stressors: The benefits of developing plans
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To investigate the health outcomes of structured writing about everyday stressors, 64 undergraduates selected a stressful event with which they were currently dealing, and wrote about it at home on three occasions in 1 week. Two forms of writing were manipulated: expressive writing – exploring one's thoughts and feelings about the stressor; and planful writing – developing plans to deal with the problem. Appraisals of control and efficacy were investigated as mediators. Expressive writing yielded no health benefits and did not affect appraisals, but planful writing did. Whereas non-planners' levels of negative affect (NA) remained stable across writing days, planners initially experienced higher NA, but their NA decreased significantly across writing days. Planful writers, relative to non-planners, felt less control over their emotions and less confidence in resolving their problem, but it was non-planners who experienced an increase in stress-related symptoms following writing. Appraisals did not mediate the physical health outcomes.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lestideau, O. T., & Lavallee, L. F.
- Affiliations
- University of Alberta (CA)
- University of Northern British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Lavallee, Loraine F.
- ORCID
- Lavallee, Loraine F.
- Venue
- Psychology & Health
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2007-07-04
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 659-676
- ISSN
- 0887-0446 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-8321
- OpenAlex
- W1967880068
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 0.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychology and Health (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Keywords
- expressive writing, stressors, stress coping, self-efficacy, negative affect, stress-related symptoms, physical health, mediation, undergraduate students
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