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The benefits of psychological displacement in diary writing when using different pronouns.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  18230229     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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.
Authors:
Y T Seih; Y C Lin; C L Huang; C W Peng; S P Huang
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  British journal of health psychology     Volume:  13     ISSN:  1359-107X     ISO Abbreviation:  Br J Health Psychol     Publication Date:  2008 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-01-30     Completed Date:  2008-04-21     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9605409     Medline TA:  Br J Health Psychol     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  39-41     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. 189Ø@ntu.edu.tw
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Affect
Humans
Narration
Self Disclosure*
Semantics*
Vocabulary*
Writing*

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