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 f...

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Published in:British journal of health psychology 2008-02, Vol.13 (1), p.39-41
Main Authors: Seih, Y. T., Lin, Y. C., Huang, C. L., Peng, C. W., Huang, S. P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affect
Diaries
Emotions
Humans
Narration
Pronouns
Self Disclosure
Selfdisclosure
Semantics
Vocabulary
Writing
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1359-107X
2044-8287
DOI:10.1348/135910707X250875