Spiritually Oriented Expressive Writing and Promoting Positive Outcomes After a Natural Disaster

Mosher, David K.; Hook, Joshua N.; Captari, Laura E.; Hodge, Adam S.; Bellegarde, Nic; Davis, Don E.; McElroy‐Heltzel, Stacey E.; Choe, Elise; Tongeren, Daryl R. Van; Davis, Edward B.; Aten, Jamie D.

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“…While the specific means for how people access SF has not been studied, we offer a few suggestions for individuals who identified as religious and/or spiritual to practice. First, a spiritually oriented expressive writing intervention was shown to help survivors of a natural disaster cope by increasing their meaning in life over time (Mosher et al, 2021). Perhaps, individuals could access SF through similar writing tasks.…”

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Religious and spiritual struggles and mental health following a disaster: The moderating role of spiritual fortitude.

Zhang¹,

Hook²,

Hodge³

et al. 2021

Spirituality in Clinical Practice

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Survivors of disasters or traumatic experiences often experience religious/spiritual (R/S) and mental health consequences (e.g., anxiety, depression). In coping with these negative experiences, people draw on a variety of coping strategies. Past research highlights the role of R/S coping as an important factor for navigating disasters, traumatic experiences, and R/S struggles. One promising, newly researched R/S coping strategy is spiritual fortitude (SF), which refers to one's ability to draw on transcendent, spiritual resources to deal with negative emotions when facing severe stressors. In this study, we recruited 295 adults who reported experiencing a disaster. Results suggested that resource loss was positively associated with both R/S struggles and mental health symptoms. Furthermore, SF moderated the relationship between resource loss and (a) R/S struggles and (b) posttraumatic stress disorder, but not the relationships between resource loss and (a) anxiety or (b) depression. We discussed limitations, areas for future research, and practical implications.

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Religious and spiritual struggles and mental health following a disaster: The moderating role of spiritual fortitude.

Zhang¹,

Hook²,

Hodge³

et al. 2021

Spirituality in Clinical Practice

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“…Additionally, in the present study, we included no measures of socioeconomic status (SES). There have been calls for expressive writing studies to include measures of SES (Russell, 2021;Mosher et al, 2021), as speculatively, better educated, higher SES individuals may be better engaged and experience greater benefits from expressive writing. Further, there is a known relationship between SES and diet quality (Pechey & Monsivais, 2016).…”

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Positive expressive writing has greater benefits for positive affect in individuals reporting better dietary quality and higher dietary fibre intake

Levova,

Smith

2023

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Background: Positive expressive writing is associated with enhanced psychological wellbeing. Several individual differences are known to moderate the enhancement effects of positive expressive writing, but no studies to date have investigated the optimal dietary conditions under which expressive writing effects occur. Here, we sought to investigate whether diet quality and dietary fibre intake moderates the effects of positive writing on mood. Methods: Participants completed self-reported measures of dietary quality, dietary fibre intake, and positive and negative affect. They were then randomly allocated to complete either a positive expressive writing or neutral writing activity for 10 minutes. Positive and negative affect were measured again immediately after each activity. Results: Participants who reported better diet quality and greater dietary fibre intake exhibited a significantly greater increase in positive affect following positive expressive writing, relative to neutral writing. No significant effects were observed for negative affect. Conclusion: For the first time, we report that effects of positive expressive writing on positive mood are enhanced under optimal dietary conditions. Further replication studies are needed to determine whether dietary factors can influence the conditions under which positive expressive writing benefits occur. We speculate that dietary influences on the gut-brain axis are a potential mechanism.

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Dal trauma alla resilienza: una ricerca sull'expressive writing con giovani adulti

Milani¹,

Stefanachi²,

Camisasca³

et al. 2023

Ricerche Di Psicologia

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Il trauma è una "ferita dell'anima", un'esperienza destabilizzante rispetto alla consuetudine, che disorganizza la mente di chi lo vive. I ricordi non trattati di un trauma sono spesso frammentati, disorganizzati e possono essere facilmente attivati sotto forma di pensieri intrusivi per cui i soggetti traumatizzati sperimentano varie forme di disagio psicologico. L'intervento di scrittura espressiva si è dimostrato essere un valido strumento come supporto nelle situazioni di stress evidenziando un generalizzato effetto positivo sulla salute. La scrittura espressiva, traducendo i pensieri e le emozioni traumatiche in linguaggio, aiuta i soggetti traumatizzati a dare un senso agli eventi sconvolgenti, a gestire le emozioni negative e migliora le loro connessioni con il mondo sociale. Questa ricerca si è posta l'obiettivo di verificare l'effetto di un protocollo di scrittura espressiva in un contesto non clinico, rappresentato da un campione di giovani adulti studenti universitari ed in particolare, ha inteso studiare gli effetti della scrittura espressiva nel mitigare eventuali problematiche psicologiche legate a eventi stressanti e/o traumatici.I risultati hanno confermato una discreta efficacia del protocollo di scrittura espressiva soprattutto nel sostenere un potenziamento delle risorse di coping personali e di adattamento rispetto agli esiti degli eventi stressanti vissuti.

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Spiritually Oriented Expressive Writing and Promoting Positive Outcomes After a Natural Disaster

Cited by 4 publications

References 74 publications

Religious and spiritual struggles and mental health following a disaster: The moderating role of spiritual fortitude.

Religious and spiritual struggles and mental health following a disaster: The moderating role of spiritual fortitude.

Positive expressive writing has greater benefits for positive affect in individuals reporting better dietary quality and higher dietary fibre intake

Dal trauma alla resilienza: una ricerca sull'expressive writing con giovani adulti

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