Expressive writing with adolescents: What’s really going on?

Discussing a negative or horrible experience can be useful be that as it may, communicating feelings can be trying for youths. Finding the correct methodology for young people to communicate is essential to keeping up and advancing constructive emotional well-being. A few specialists guarantee expressive composing has positive psychological wellness impacts on youths while others contend the opposite. Besides, even among advocates, there is little understanding about how or why expressive composing may deliver positive emotional well-being results. Because of the scarcity of exploration on the hidden mental and psychological components of expressive writing in the young adult populace, more investigations are required. For this examination, investigation of diaries composed by young people during an organized expressive composing mediation was picked as a subjective technique to uncover the fundamental systems of expressive composition. Information was created through a randomized assortment of understudy diaries until immersion was met. A sum of eight diaries were consequently saved for investigation. Information examination consolidated both inductive topical coding and reasonable deductive coding that mirrored the mental speculations proposed in the writing to clarify the likely systems. The examination recommends that 3 of the 5 hypotheses proposed in the writing were found in the understudy diaries. Moreover, two extra speculations picked by the creator yet not proposed in the writing, were additionally reflected in the diaries. Progressively organized composing mediations ought to be considered to encourage the fundamental components of expressive composition. More exploration is required, for example, utilizing subjective meetings to additionally comprehend the experience of expressive composition from the point of view of the young people themselves.

Author(s): Maria F. Guzzo

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