The benefits of psychological displacement in diary writing when using different pronouns.
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.
Seih
Y T
YT
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. 189Ø@ntu.edu.tw
Lin
Y C
YC
Huang
C L
CL
Peng
C W
CW
Huang
S P
SP
D000339:Affect; D006801:Humans; D033262:Narration; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012660:Semantics; D014825:Vocabulary; D014956:Writing