Assessing coping strategies by analysing expressive writing samples

Stress and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 250-260

  Lee, Hyoung S ^a   Cohn, Lawrence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping; Depression; Expressive writing; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; COPE; COPING BEHAVIOR; COPING STRATEGIES INDICATOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; RATING SCALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAYS OF COPING REVISED;

EID: 77957930876     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1293     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Amirkhan, J. H. (1990). A factor analytically derived measure of coping: The Coping Strategy Indicator. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59(5), 1066-1074.
2. Arbuckle, J. L. (2006). AMOS 7.0 user's guide. Chicago, IL: SPSS.
3. Barrett, P. (2007). Structural equation modelling: Adjudging model fit. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 815-824.
4. Bentler, P. M. (2007). On tests and indices for evaluating structural models. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 825-829.
5. Cameron, L. D., & Nicholls, G. (1998). Expression of stressful experiences through writing: Effects of a selfregulation manipulation for pessimists and optimists. Health Psychology, 17(1), 84-92.
6. Campbell, R. S., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2003). The secret life of pronouns: Flexibility in writing style and physical health. Psychological Science, 14(1), 60-65.
7. Carver, C. S., Scheier, M. F., & Weintraub, J. K. (1989). Assessing coping strategies: A theoretically based approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56(2), 267-283.
8. Clark, K. K., Bormann, C. A., Cropanzano, R. S., & James, K. (1995). Validation evidence for three coping measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 65(3), 434-455.
9. Cohn, M. A., Mehl, M. R., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2004). Linguistic markers of psychological change surrounding September 11, 2001. Psychological Science, 15(10), 687-693.
10. Dyson, R., & Renk, K. (2006). Freshmen adaptation to university life: Depressive symptoms, stress, and coping. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(10), 1231-1244.
11. Folkman, S., & Lazarus, R. S. (1985). If it changes it must be a process: Study of emotion and coping during three stages of a college examination. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48(1), 150-170.
12. Gilrain, K. L. (2004). Coping with bereavement through the use of optimistic emotional disclosure. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Drexel University, Pennsylvania.
13. Harris, A. H. S. (2006). Does expressive writing reduce health care utilization? A meta-analysis of randomized trials. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74(2), 243-252.
14. Hu, L., & Bentler, P. M. (1998). Fit indices in covariance structure modeling: Sensitivity to underparameterized model misspecifications. Psychological Methods, 3, 424-453.
15. Hu, L., & Bentler, P. M. (1999). Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling, 6, 1-55.
16. Ingledew, D. K., Hardy, L., Cooper, C. L., & Jemal, H. (1996). Health behaviours reported as coping strategies: A factor analytical study. British Journal of Health Psychology, 1, 263-281.
17. King, L. A. (2001). The health benefits of writing about life goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27(7), 798-807.
18. Lemmon, C. R., & Goggin, J. P. (1989). The measurement of bilingualism and its relationship to cognitive ability. Applied Psycholinguistics, 10, 133-155.
19. Mackenzie, C. S., Wiprzycka, U. J., Hasher, L., & Goldstein, D. (2007). Does expressive writing reduce stress and improve health for family caregivers of older adults? The Gerontologist, 47(3), 296-306.
20. Marsh, H. W., Hau, K. T., & Wen, Z. (2004). In search of golden rules: Comment on hypothesis-testing approaches to setting cutoff values for fit indexes and dangers in overgeneralizing Hu and Bentler's (1999) findings. Structural Equation Modeling, 11, 320-341.
21. Martinović, Ž., Simonović, P., & Djdcić, R. (2006). Preventing depression in adolescents with epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 9, 619-624.
22. Miller, G. E., & Cohen, S. (2001). Psychological interventions and the immune system: A meta-analytic review and critique. Health Psychology, 20(1), 47-63.
23. Mogk, C., Otte, S., Reinhold-Hurley, B., & Kröner-Herwig, B. (2006). Health effects of expressive writing on stressful or traumatic experiences-A meta-analysis. GMS Psycho-Social Medicine, 3, Doc 06.
24. Pennebaker, J. W., & Beall, S. K. (1986). Confronting a traumatic event: Toward an understanding of inhibition and disease. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95(3), 274-281.
25. Pennebaker, J. W., & King, L. A. (1999). Linguistic styles: Language use as an individual difference. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(6), 1296-1312.
26. Pennebaker, J. W., Francis, M. E., & Booth, R. J. (2001). Linguistic inquiry and word count. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
27. Pennebaker, J. W., Mayne, T. J., & Francis, M. E. (1997). Linguistic predictors of adaptive bereavement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72(4), 863-871.
28. Perez-Benitez, C. I., O'Brien, W. H., Carels, R. A., Gordon, A. K., & Chiros, C. E. (2007). Cardiovascular correlates of disclosing homosexual orientation. Stress and Health, 23(3), 141-152.
29. Radloff, L. S. (1977). The CES-D scale: A self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Applied Psychological Measurement, 1, 385-401.
30. Rude, S. S., Gortner, E. M., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2004). Language use of depressed and depression-vulnerable college students. Cognition & Emotion, 18(8), 1121-1133.
31. Sideridis, G. D. (2006). Coping is not an 'either' 'or': The interaction of coping strategies in regulating affect, arousal and performance. Stress and Health, 22(5), 315-327.
32. Smyth, J. M. (1998). Written emotional expression: Effect sizes, outcome types, and moderating variables. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 66, 174-184.
33. Stanton, A. L., Danoff-Burg, S., Cameron, C. L., Bishop, M., Collins, C. A., Kirk, S. B., Sworowski, L. A., & Twillman, R. (2000). Emotionally expressive coping predicts psychological and physical adjustment to breast cancer. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68(5), 875-882.
34. Stanton, A. L., Danoff-Burg, S., Sworowski, L. A., Collins, C. A., Branstetter, A. D., Rodriguez-Hanley, A., Kirk, S. B., & Austenfeld, J. L. (2002). Randomized, controlled trial of written emotional expression and benefit finding in breast cancer patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 20, 4160-4168.