Psychology Report: The effect after intense positive experience writing



Abstract

In a variation of analyzing the effect after intense positive experience writing. A sample 115 undergraduate student, who did the study for the research report for the introduction of the psychology course. There were 23 males and 92 females had took the test, female mean age was 30.26 (Standard deviation - 9.58) years, male mean age was 29.74 (Standard deviation - 8.97) years, with the total mean age 30.16 (Standard deviation - 9.43) years. The measures or health center visits for illness were obtained. Writing about IPEs intense positive experiences associated with enhanced positive mood was also significantly fewer health center visits for illness, compared to controls. Results are interpreted as challenging previously considered mechanisms of the positive benefits or writing. Analysis of the Effect after Intense Positive Experience Writing

Introduction

Many previous research studies have revealed that writing about an important or unique positive experience helps to increase positive emotions. Researchers have identified that people suffering from social phobia and anxiety disorder respond well to the positive affect or event (L.R. Eisner et al. / Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2009). A research study conducted by Greenberg and Stone (1992) revealed that intense positive experience helps in the reduction of health related issues.

According to research conducted by Chad M. Burton and Laura A. King on the topic of the health benefits of writing about intense positive experience, presented that writing about the intense positive experiences is also related with less health center visit compared to the control group in the experiment. The researcher used a sample of 90 undergraduates student either to write about intense positive experience or controlled topic twenty minutes each day for three months, the result shown that writing about intense positive experiences reduce a better mood of well being compare to the control group.

Wing JF, Schuttle Ns, Byrne B (2006) conducted a research study on the impact of positive emotion on the individual. The research study revealed that positive well being helps in the transformation of neutral emotions to positive emotions. The positive emotions can be generated through a certain event with positive experiences for emotion regulation reflection, positive experiences without the cue, and a control topic. The result showed that the participants who wrote about the positive experiences for emotion regulation reflection and positives experiences without the cue had higher rates on positive emotion than the one on the control topic. Along, with that their were no significant differences between the participants who wrote about the positive experiences with or without the cue.

An extensive amount of researches have revealed that traumatic experiences can also help to reduce stress and motivated a person becoming a positive well being. Along, with that they have also revealed that a traumatic or upsetting experiences can also generated a positive emotion or well being. According to the research report by Pennebaker & Beall (1986) traumatic experience demonstrated with both short-term and long-term expressive writing can increase in physiological arousal and decreasing in ...