Computer-based written emotional disclosure: the effects of advance or real-time guidance and moderation by Big 5 personality traits
| Autor: | Jennifer N. Carty, Mark A. Lumley, Alison M. Radcliffe, Deborah V. Latsch, Jonathan A. Beyer, Lindsay Oberleitner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Adult
Male Agreeableness Self Disclosure Writing media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Disclosure Article Young Adult Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Personality Young adult Big Five personality traits Students media_common Internet Extraversion and introversion Computers Conscientiousness Moderation Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Self-disclosure Female Psychology Stress Psychological Follow-Up Studies Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. 27:477-493 |
| ISSN: | 1477-2205 1061-5806 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10615806.2013.868887 |
| Popis: | Standard written emotional disclosure (WED) about stress, which is private and unguided, yields small health benefits. The effect of providing individualized guidance to writers may enhance WED, but has not been tested. This trial of computer-based WED compared two novel therapist-guided forms of WED - advance guidance (before sessions) and real-time guidance (during sessions, through instant messaging) - to both standard WED and control writing; it also tested Big 5 personality traits as moderators of guided WED. Young adult participants (n = 163) with unresolved stressful experiences were randomized to conditions, had three, 30-min computer-based writing sessions, and were reassessed six weeks later. Contrary to hypotheses, real-time guidance WED had poorer outcomes than the other conditions on several measures, and advance guidance WED also showed some poorer outcomes. Moderator analyses revealed that participants with low baseline agreeableness, low extraversion, or high conscientiousness had relatively poor responses to guidance. We conclude that providing guidance for WED, especially in real-time, may interfere with emotional processing of unresolved stress, particularly for people whose personalities have poor fit with this interactive form of WED. |
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