Implementing an Expressive Writing Intervention for Test Anxiety in a Large College Course

Implementing an Expressive Writing Intervention for Test Anxiety in a Large College Course †

Implementing an expressive writing study in a cancer clinic.

Patients at a comprehensive cancer center have participated in a weekly writing program for 7 years. Anecdotal evidence following writing in this clinical setting appeared congruent with the results of expressive writing studies conducted in laboratory settings. To move expressive writing research beyond the laboratory, we evaluated the feasibility of engaging a clinical population in a structu...

Benefits of expressive writing in reducing test anxiety: A randomized controlled trial in Chinese samples

PURPOSE To explore the effect of expressive writing of positive emotions on test anxiety among senior-high-school students. METHODS The Test Anxiety Scale (TAS) was used to assess the anxiety level of 200 senior-high-school students. Seventy-five students with high anxiety were recruited and divided randomly into experimental and control groups. Each day for 30 days, the experimental group en...

The role of expressive writing in math anxiety.

Math anxiety is a negative affective reaction to situations involving math. Previous work demonstrates that math anxiety can negatively impact math problem solving by creating performance-related worries that disrupt the working memory needed for the task at hand. By leveraging knowledge about the mechanism underlying the math anxiety-performance relationship, we tested the effectiveness of a s...

Moderator of Expressive Writing Tasks : Test of a Matching Hypothesis

Title of Document: PERSONAL GROWTH INITIATIVE AS A MODERATOR OF EXPRESSIVE WRITING TASKS: TEST OF A MATCHING HYPOTHESIS Helena (Mimi) Martin, Master of Arts, 2009 Directed By: Dr. Robert W. Lent, Counseling and Personnel Services Department This study advances knowledge regarding a new potential client variable moderator to therapeutic writing. Therapeutic writing, also referred to in the liter...