{"title":"Emotional engagement in expressive writing","authors":"Daphna Sabo Mordechay, Z. Eviatar, Bracha Nir","doi":"10.1075/NI.20051.SAB","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n \n HaCohen et al. (2018) identified three types of narratives that emerge\n in the context of integrating a difficult event into one’s life story. We use their identification while focusing on the quality\n of emotional involvement evidenced in texts, and combining it with an abstract-content text analysis. This allows us to quantify\n emotional engagement in Expressive Writing (EW) texts. We analyze personal-experience narratives produced in EW, and examine\n whether good EW outcome cases (in terms of well-being improvement) would be characterized with different types of narratives than\n poor outcome cases. Results show that texts produced by good outcome cases presented more emotional involvement than poor cases.\n Furthermore, good cases presented with a more complex and well-integrated narrative of their story than poor cases. It is\n suggested that good outcome participants’ writings are more emotionally involved, integrated and personal. Our findings emphasize\n the importance of context-sensitive and function-oriented accounts of EW texts.","PeriodicalId":46671,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Inquiry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Narrative Inquiry","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NI.20051.SAB","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
HaCohen et al. (2018) identified three types of narratives that emerge
in the context of integrating a difficult event into one’s life story. We use their identification while focusing on the quality
of emotional involvement evidenced in texts, and combining it with an abstract-content text analysis. This allows us to quantify
emotional engagement in Expressive Writing (EW) texts. We analyze personal-experience narratives produced in EW, and examine
whether good EW outcome cases (in terms of well-being improvement) would be characterized with different types of narratives than
poor outcome cases. Results show that texts produced by good outcome cases presented more emotional involvement than poor cases.
Furthermore, good cases presented with a more complex and well-integrated narrative of their story than poor cases. It is
suggested that good outcome participants’ writings are more emotionally involved, integrated and personal. Our findings emphasize
the importance of context-sensitive and function-oriented accounts of EW texts.
期刊介绍：
Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative. Articles appearing in Narrative Inquiry draw upon a variety of approaches and methodologies in the study of narrative as a way to give contour to experience, tradition, and values to next generations. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics and related disciplines.
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