The Health Benefits of Writing about Life Goals

By L. King. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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A Comparative Study on the Efficacy of a Positive Psychology Intervention and a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Clinical Depression (2017, background): “Best positive self Emmons and McCullough (2003) King (2001), Seligman et al. (2006) Hedonic 5 Positive relationships Kindness.”
A Three-Tier Hierarchy of Self-Potency: Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self (2013, background): “cessful accomplishment of life goals enhances subjective well-being 3 weeks into the future and physical health 5 months into the future (King, 2001).”
Job burnout: The contribution of emotional stability and emotional self‐efficacy beliefs (2018, neutral): “The expressive writing paradigm, for example, requires participants to write about their deepest feelings and thoughts about aspects of life or meaningful events (e.g., King, 2001, 2002).”
Increasing transformational leadership through enhancing self‐efficacy (2010, background): “Studies using expressive writing interventions have shown that individuals who write about meaningful experiences, ranging from traumatic events (Lepore and Smyth, 2002), to life goals (King, 2001), to romantic relationships (Slatcher and Pennebaker, 2006), to intensely positive experiences (Burton ”
How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves (2006, background): “Although contemplating one’s best possible self may have particularly positive effects on affect (King, 2001), cultivating gratitude may be relatively more difficult to accomplish, yet may have positive and perhaps deferred effects on other variables, such as forgiveness, cooperation, and reduced co”
Letters of Gratitude: Further Evidence for Author Benefits (2012, background): “A robust literature concerning the value of expressive writing indicates numerous psychological and health benefits for writers (King 2001; Sheldon and Lyubomirsky 2006; Seligman et al. 2005) while the marriage of gratitude and writing has long been a metric for assessing well-being (King 2001; Shel”
Individual Self, Relational Self, Collective Self: Hierarchical Ordering of the Tripartite Self (2011, background): “Even imagining successful goal completion elevates subjective well-being and improves physical health 5 months into the future (King 2001).”
Experimental disclosure and its moderators: a meta-analysis. (2006, background): “King (2001) reported that writing about one’s “best possible self” (writing about one’s life as if all one’s goals were met and everything went right) produced reductions in illness visits that were as strong as (if not stronger than) those produced from writing expressively about a trauma.”
Open Hearts Build Lives: Positive Emotions, Induced Through Loving-Kindness Meditation, Build Consequential Personal Resources (2008, positive): “Such research has been virtually nonexistent (but see Emmons & McCullough, 2003; King, 2001 ), largely because resources are expected to accrue only after many experiences of positive emotions over separate occasions, which necessitates a longitudinal design as well as a reliable, repeatable method”
Possible selves and academic outcomes: How and when possible selves impel action. (2006, background): “There is some evidence that imagining successful PSs improves well-being (King, 2001) and performance (Ruvolo & Markus, 1992).”
Integrating Mindfulness into Positive Psychology: a Randomised Controlled Trial of an Online Positive Mindfulness Program (2016, methodology): “They began with practising the Bbest possible self^ intervention (King 2001) for approximately 5 min, to trigger insights related to aspects of the self which could lead to higher levels of meaning and purpose.”
Tailoring positive psychology interventions to treat depressed individuals. (2011, positive): “In a pioneering study, once a day for four consecutive days, participants were instructed to " imagine that everything has gone as well as it possibly could " and to write about it for 20 minutes (King, 2001).”
The Context-Sensitive Future Self: Possible Selves Motivate in Context, Not Otherwise (2015, neutral): “Positive associations are found for academic outcomes (Anderman, Anderman, & Griesinger, 1999), plans (Oettingen, Pak, & Schnetter, 2001), physical symptoms (King, 2001), and optimism for the future (Gonzales, Burgess, & Mobilio, 2001; Meevissen, Peters, & Alberts, 2011; Peters, Flink, Boersma, & Li”
A motivational hierarchy within: primacy of the individual self, relational self, or collective self? (2012, background): “An example of the power goals exert on welfare is the finding that imagining the successful accomplishment of life goals enhances subjective wellbeing three weeks into the future and physical health five months into the future (King, 2001).”