Effects of Writing About Traumatic Experiences: The Necessity for Narrative Structuring

By Joshua M. Smyth, Nicole True, J. Souto. 2001

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. E. Watkins
2. Sander L. Koole
3. S. Toepfer

In Social Psychology

1. E. Watkins
2. Patti Peters
3. Sander L. Koole
4. Kelly Cichy
5. S. Toepfer

Citations in the corpus

• Letters of Gratitude: Further Evidence for Author Benefits (2012, background): “The highly structured nature of both writing and talking create a narrative that generates understanding and meaning (Singer 2004; Smyth et al. 2001), provides definition and a sense of control of emotion and experience (Pennebaker and Graybeal 2001), and integrates memories with self-understanding ”
• Dealing with feeling: a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of strategies derived from the process model of emotion regulation. (2012, unknown): “…S1 Cont4 144 0.25 0.58 Shiota & Levenson (2009) 1 Negative affect R2 Cont4 76 0.09 0.07 Shiota & Levenson (2009) 1 Negative affect R3 Cont4 68 0.39 0.27 Smyth et al. (2001) 1 Negative affect C1 C3 39 39 0.07 Takagi & Ohira (2004) 1 Negative affect S3 C1 8 8 0.49 Trask & Sigmon (1999) 1 Negative…”
• The psychology of emotion regulation: An integrative review (2009, background): “These beneficial effects may arise because expressive writing helps to turn initially disturbing emotional experiences into coherent narratives (Smyth, True, & Souto, 2001 ), which down-regulates emotional distress and promotes insight into the self and one's emotions (Klein & Boals, 2001 ; Penneb”
• Constructive and Unconstructive Repetitive Thought (2008, background): “In addition, theoretical accounts of cognitive processing suggest that it will be easier to organize and make coherent one single event rather than multiple events simultaneously, because multiple memories will interfere with the processing of each other, take up more central executive resources (Fo”