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