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Barcaccia, Barbara; Schaeffer, Tyler; Balestrini, Viviana; Rizzo, Fabio; Mattogno, Francesca; Baiocco, Roberto; Mancini, Francesco; Schneider, Barry Howard
Is expressive writing effective in decreasing depression and increasing forgiveness and emotional wellbeing if preadolescents? Journal Article
In: Terapia psicológica, vol. 35, no 3, pp. 213-222, 2017, ISSN: 0716-6184.
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@article{Barcaccia2017bb,
title = {Is expressive writing effective in decreasing depression and increasing forgiveness and emotional wellbeing if preadolescents?},
author = {Barbara Barcaccia and Tyler Schaeffer and Viviana Balestrini and Fabio Rizzo and Francesca Mattogno and Roberto Baiocco and Francesco Mancini and Barry Howard Schneider},
editor = {Sociedad Chilena de Psicologia Clinica},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017-Expressive-Writing-and-forgiveness-in-preadolescents_Barcaccia-et-al.-2017.pdf},
doi = {10.1037//0022-3514.82.4.675},
issn = {0716-6184},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-08-31},
journal = {Terapia psicológica},
volume = {35},
number = {3},
pages = {213-222},
abstract = {Expressive writing (EW) can be an effective way to alter maladaptive emotional reactions to stressful life events,
although little is known about how pre-adolescents may beneft from it. In this quasi-experimental study, we
compared measures of depression, anger, forgiveness, positive and negative affect in pre-adolescents before
and after EW in both an experimental group undergoing the EW paradigm and a control group (N=138). No
signifcant effects between control and experimental groups were found for the considered variables, except
for positive and negative affect. We suggest potential reasons accounting for these results. Given that the
theorised mechanisms involved in the EW paradigm include executive functioning abilities, it is possible that
preadolescents may not be able to beneft from it, due to not fully developed executive functioning skills.
Our results provide useful information in order to better design future studies and prevention/intervention
programmes to be implemented with preadolescents.},
keywords = {Anger, depression, Expressive Writing, forgiveness, Pre-adolescents},
pubstate = {published},
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}
Expressive writing (EW) can be an effective way to alter maladaptive emotional reactions to stressful life events,
although little is known about how pre-adolescents may beneft from it. In this quasi-experimental study, we
compared measures of depression, anger, forgiveness, positive and negative affect in pre-adolescents before
and after EW in both an experimental group undergoing the EW paradigm and a control group (N=138). No
signifcant effects between control and experimental groups were found for the considered variables, except
for positive and negative affect. We suggest potential reasons accounting for these results. Given that the
theorised mechanisms involved in the EW paradigm include executive functioning abilities, it is possible that
preadolescents may not be able to beneft from it, due to not fully developed executive functioning skills.
Our results provide useful information in order to better design future studies and prevention/intervention
programmes to be implemented with preadolescents.
although little is known about how pre-adolescents may beneft from it. In this quasi-experimental study, we
compared measures of depression, anger, forgiveness, positive and negative affect in pre-adolescents before
and after EW in both an experimental group undergoing the EW paradigm and a control group (N=138). No
signifcant effects between control and experimental groups were found for the considered variables, except
for positive and negative affect. We suggest potential reasons accounting for these results. Given that the
theorised mechanisms involved in the EW paradigm include executive functioning abilities, it is possible that
preadolescents may not be able to beneft from it, due to not fully developed executive functioning skills.
Our results provide useful information in order to better design future studies and prevention/intervention
programmes to be implemented with preadolescents.