INTERPERSONAL DISCLOSURE PROCESSES AND HEALTH

人际披露流程与健康

• 批准号: 2675211
• 负责人: JAMES W PENNEBAKER
• 金额: $ 10.98万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2675211
• 关键词: autonomic nervous system; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognition; health; human subject; immunity; information dissemination; mental health; psychological shock; psychological stressor; psychological tests; psychometrics; stress management; verbal behavior

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): A growing body of research demonstrates that when individuals talk or write about personal upheavals in their lives, they become less distressed and physically healthier. Several preliminary studies suggest that many of these health effects are the result of translating feelings and images into language. It is hypothesized that putting an experience into words results in less intense emotional responses and facilitates the cognitive processing of the experience. Over the three of the grant, a series of studies with college students and distressed recently unemployed adults will be conducted. The grant proposal is divided into two interdependent projects. The first involves five experiments that examine how the verbal expression of emotion affects subsequent emotion language, cognitive organization, and autonomic activity. It is hypothesized that when individuals verbally express an emotion, immediate drops in autonomic nervous system activity, lowered self-reported emotional intensity, and improvements in the ability to cognitively organized the emotional experience follow. Working in collaboration with another research group, this paradigm will be extended to learning the links between writing about emotional topics and longterm health and immune activity. Specifically, we predict that using emotion language will ultimately affect health, with changes in emotional intensity and cognitive organization of the events serving as mediators. The second phase of the project explores how putting an event into language influences individual's daily thoughts and emotions. Across two studies, college students and recently unemployed adults will undergo the Experience Sampling Method wherein they will be "beeped" multiple times per day in the week before and after writing about either emotional or control topics. It is predicted that writing will exert its impact on health by reducing daily negative emotions and ruminations about upsetting events.

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：越来越多的研究体系 证明当个人谈论或写有关个人动荡 他们的生活，他们变得不那么困扰和身体健康。 一些 初步研究表明，其中许多健康影响是结果 将感觉和图像转化为语言。 假设 将经验置于言语中会导致情绪反应不太强烈 并促进体验的认知处理。 超过三个 赠款，一系列对大学生的研究和苦恼 最近将进行失业的成年人。 赠款提案分为 分为两个相互依存的项目。 第一个涉及五个实验 检查情感的口头表达如何影响随后的情绪 语言，认知组织和自主活动。 这是 假设当个人口头表达情感时，立即 自主神经系统活动的下降，降低了自我报告的情绪 强度，并提高认知组织的能力 情感经历随后。 与另一项研究合作 小组，此范式将扩展到学习写作之间的链接 关于情绪主题以及长期健康和免疫活动。 具体来说，我们预测使用情感语言最终会影响 健康，情绪强度和认知组织的变化 这些事件是调解人。 该项目的第二阶段探索 将事件投入语言如何影响个人的日常思想 和情绪。 在两项研究中，大学生和最近失业 成人将接受经验抽样方法 在写作前后每天多次“哔哔声” 情感或控制主题。 据预测，写作会发挥 它通过减少每日负面情绪和反省而对健康的影响 关于沮丧的事件。