Emotional engagement in expressive writing

IF 0.9 4区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Narrative Inquiry Pub Date : 2021-07-12 DOI:10.1075/NI.20051.SAB

Daphna Sabo Mordechay, Z. Eviatar, Bracha Nir

引用次数: 1

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.

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表达性写作中的情感参与

HaCohen等人。（2018）确定了在将一个困难事件融入一个人的生活故事的背景下出现的三种叙事类型。我们使用他们的识别，同时关注文本中所证明的情感参与的质量，并将其与抽象内容文本分析相结合。这使我们能够量化表达写作（EW）文本中的情感参与。我们分析了电子战中产生的个人经历叙事，并研究了良好的电子战结果案例（就幸福感改善而言）是否会与不良结果案例具有不同类型的叙事特征。结果表明，结果好的案例产生的文本比结果差的案例表现出更多的情感参与。此外，好的案例比坏的案例对故事的叙述更复杂、更完整。研究表明，良好结果参与者的写作更多地涉及情感、综合和个人化。我们的研究结果强调了对电子战文本进行上下文敏感和功能导向的描述的重要性。

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2.10

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14.30%

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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.