2024
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1327595
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Writing to your past-self can make you feel better

Eriko Sugimori,
Mayu Yamaguchi,
Takashi Kusumi

Abstract: Self-compassionate writing has been shown to be helpful for improving the mental state in some individuals. Here, we investigated how the writer’s attitude toward his/her past, present and future and the focus of the writing, i.e., social experience in the past versus self-experience, modulate these effects. In Experiment 1, 150 undergraduates wrote a compassionate letter to their past-self and to their future-self and responded to the Japanese version of the Adolescent Time Inventory–Time Attitudes (ATI-TA) q… Show more

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