Testing the Ideology of Openness: The Comparative Effects of Talking, Writing, and Avoiding a Stressor on Rumination and Health

Afifi, Tamara D.; Shahnazi, Ariana F.; Coveleski, Samantha; Davis, Shardé M.; Merrill, Anne F.

doi:10.1111/hcre.12096

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“…Laboratory experiments demonstrated that whereas empathic responses from listeners entailed greater proximity to the listener and an impression of feeling better, a reduction of emotional impact occurred exclusively when listeners stimulated participants' cognitive work (reframing) [33 ]. Several studies confirmed such findings [16,[45][46][47][48][49]. Can listeners tell what support sharers need?…”

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Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and social outcomes of the social sharing of emotion

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Bouchat

Paquot

et al. 2020

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Emotional experiences trigger the social sharing of emotion. This disclosure of emotional facts and feelings to the social surrounding was generally considered as a simple process of emotional release. The empirical data reviewed in this article invalidate this simplistic view. They show that the social sharing of emotions is a complex process that results not only in intrapersonal effects for the source person, but also in important interpersonal and social outcomes. The intrapersonal effects of the social sharing of emotions are varied, they do not necessarily go together, and they respond to specific conditions. At the interpersonal level, both the sharing of positive and negative emotional episodes affects relationships with the audience. Finally, the research highlights broader social effects relating to social structure, social norms, group action, beliefs, collective resilience, and intergroup relations.

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Section: Conditions For Positive Outcomes Of the Social Sharing Of Emmentioning

confidence: 97%

Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and social outcomes of the social sharing of emotion

Rimé

Bouchat

Paquot

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Current Opinion in Psychology

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“…In a meta-analytic review of 23 studies ( N > 5,000), High and Dillard (2012) found that messages with higher levels of PC produce cognitive, affective, and relational outcomes for support receivers compared with messages that contain lower levels of PC. Moreover, emotional support that possesses the characteristics of LPC messages can exacerbate the stress response (Bodie, 2012) and lead recipients to feel anxious and ruminate, which have deleterious effects for health and well-being (Afifi, Afifi, Merrill, Denes, & Davis, 2013; Afifi, Shahnazi, Coveleski, Davis, & Merrill, 2017).…”

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The Stuff That Verbal Person-Centered Support Is Made of: Identifying Linguistic Markers of More and Less Supportive Conversations

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Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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Although the functions of messages varying in verbal person centeredness (PC) are well-established, we know less about the linguistic content that differentiates messages with distinct levels of PC. This study examines the lexicon of different levels of PC comfort and seeks to ascertain whether computerized analysis can complement human coders when coding supportive conversations. Transcripts from support providers trained to enact low, moderate, or high levels of PC were subjected to the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) dictionary. Results reveal that several categories in the LIWC dictionary vary systematically as a function of conversational PC level. LIWC categories, particularly pronouns, social process, cognitive process, anxiety, and anger words, reliably predict which level of the PC hierarchy an interaction represents based on whether a conversation was designed to be high, moderate, or low in PC. The implications are discussed in the context of the lexicon of conversations that vary in PC.

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“…Refraining from talking about an issue is not merely the opposite of co-rumination, and research that can differentiate their effects on MH is necessary. Topic avoidance and corumination were qualitatively different, tended to be used for different reasons, and related to different relationship outcomes (Afifi et al, 2017). For example, a mother avoiding talking about her financial stress with her adolescent daughter can have different outcomes than the mother continually disclosing her anxieties about the financial stress with her daughter.…”

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Why Family Communication Matters: the Role of Co-rumination and Topic Avoidance in Understanding Post-Disaster Mental Health

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Afifi

Horan

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Although families can be a source of support post-disaster, depending on how they communicate about their stress, their attempts at support can be helpful or harmful. This study explored the moderating role of topic avoidance and co-rumination on post-disaster mental health (MH) in a sample of 485 parent-child dyads following severe floods affecting Texas. Parents (69.0% female) and their oldest child between the ages of 10-19 years (M = 13.75 years, SD = 2.56) completed online surveys approximately one-year post-flooding. Participants reported their flood exposure, life stressors since the disaster, topic avoidance, co-rumination, and MH symptoms (posttraumatic stress symptoms [PTSS], depression, anxiety). Structural equation models tested a moderatedmediation model of whether communication processes moderated the associations of flood exposure and life stressors on MH. They did not moderate the association of flood exposure to PTSS, but did have a moderating role for depression and anxiety. At low levels of topic avoidance, there was no association between flood exposure and child anxiety or depression. However, at mean and high levels of topic avoidance, there was a significant, positive association between flood exposure and child anxiety and depression. Co-rumination impacted both parents and children. For parents, there was no association between flood exposure and depression or anxiety when co-rumination was low or mean-level. However, flood exposure increased risk for depression and anxiety at high levels of co-rumination. A similar pattern emerged for children. Results for life stressors were nuanced. Overall, this suggests that communication can influence post-disaster MH.

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Testing the Ideology of Openness: The Comparative Effects of Talking, Writing, and Avoiding a Stressor on Rumination and Health

Cited by 17 publications

References 71 publications

Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and social outcomes of the social sharing of emotion

Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and social outcomes of the social sharing of emotion

The Stuff That Verbal Person-Centered Support Is Made of: Identifying Linguistic Markers of More and Less Supportive Conversations

Why Family Communication Matters: the Role of Co-rumination and Topic Avoidance in Understanding Post-Disaster Mental Health

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