The health benefits of writing about intensely positive experiences

By Chad M. Burton, L. King. 2004

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Positive psychology in clinical practice. (2005, methodology): “…about the physical and psychological benefits of writing about traumas and periods of struggle (e.g., Esterling et al. 1999, Smyth 1998, Smyth et al. 1999), evidence is only beginning to accumulate about what happens when people write or talk about their highest moments (e.g., Burton & King 2004).”
A Test of Two Positive Psychology Interventions to Increase Employee Well-Being (2014, result): “, Burton and King 2004). To the degree that these interventions can improve physical health and reduce associated organizational costs (e.g., lost productivity and insurance costs), their benefit to organizations obviously increases dramatically. Studies trying to replicate the present results and e”
Integrating Positive and Clinical Psychology: Viewing Human Functioning as Continua from Positive to Negative Can Benefit Clinical Assessment, Interventions and Understandings of Resilience (2017, background): “The self-help interventions have included positive writing interventions, where participants write about intensely positive experiences (Burton and King 2004), gratitude interventions, where participants recall things in their lives for which they are grateful (Emmons and McCullough 2003; Geraghty e”
Positive psychology interventions: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies (2013, neutral): “Half of the studies, 19 in total, recruited the subjects (not necessarily students) through university [29,32,34,51,56,5861,64-68,70,72,75,80,85].”
A boost of positive affect (2013, background): “Another study found that participants who wrote about intense positive emotions showed enhanced positive mood, as compared to those who wrote on a control topic (Burton & King, 2004).”
Grateful to God or just plain grateful? A comparison of religious and general gratitude (2011, background): “While considerable experimental evidence now suggests that activities aimed at enhancing positive emotions, behaviors and cognitions can produce beneficial shifts in human affect over time (eg, Burton & King, 2004 ; Emmons & McCullough, 2003 ; Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & Schkade, 2005 ) more recent e”
Positive psychotherapy: A strength-based approach (2015, background): “It is not that troubles are not worth discussing, but powerful therapeutic bonds can also be built by deeply discussing positive emotions and experiences (Burton & King, 2004).”
Manipulating optimism: Can imagining a best possible self be used to increase positive future expectancies? (2010, background): “Burton and King (2004) also found that postmanipulation PA was significantly higher after writing about intense positive experiences compared to control writing, whereas there were no changes in NA.”
Happy People Live Longer: Subjective Well-Being Contributes to Health and Longevity (2011, background): “Burton and King (2003) studied the health benefits of writing about intensely positive experiences versus a control topic.”
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 ”
Factors contributing to verbal self-disclosure (2007, neutral): “…& Park, 2000; Richards, Beal, Seagal, & Pennebaker, 2000; Stroebe, Stroebe, Schut, Zech, & van den Bout, 2002), emotionally-invested writing about trauma (Smyth, 1998) or about intensely positive experience (Burton & King, 2004) appears to be linked to better psychological and physical health.”