Healthy subjects, i.e. without any somatic or psychiatric acute or chronic disease or disorder by self-report
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Expressive writing intervention (writing for 30 min each on three consecutive days about a distressing experience). Particiants were informed that writing about a distresssing experience in t
Sponsors
Klinische Psychologie und PsychotherapieFakultät für PsychologieUniversität Basel
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) ages of 18 years and older, (2) absence of acute or chronic mental disorder or somatic disease by self report, (3) not receiving psychological or psychiatric or medical treatment in the last six month by self-report and (4) a Toronto Alexithymia Scale score below 54 (Kupfer, Brosig, & Brahler, 2000), since alexithymia has been shown to influence effects of expressive writing (Paez, Velasco, & Gonzalez, 1999).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (1) younger than 18 years (2) any acute or chronic mental disorder or somatic disorder by self report (3) receiving psychological or psychiatric or medical treatment in the last six month by self-report (4) a Toronto Alexithymia Scale score above 54 (Kupfer, Brosig, & Brahler, 2000), since alexithymia has been shown to influence effects of expressive writing (Paez, Velasco, & Gonzalez, 1999).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Possible effects of the experimental conditions were repeatedly assessed for up to 46 days after base-line (baseline=Tag 1, post-Expressive Writing=Tag 4, midterm follow up=Tag 10 und longterm-follow-up=Tag46) with the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS, Krohne, Egloff, Kohlmann, & Tausch, 1996), which was a priori defined as outcome. The PANAS contains two scales with overall 10 five-point items assessing positive (e.g. "interested", "proud") and negative affect (e.g. "upset", "ashamed"). | — |
Countries
Switzerland
Contacts
Public ContactJens Gaab
Klinische Psychologie und PsychotherapieFakultät für PsychologieUniversität Basel
Outcome results
None listed