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THE LINK BETWEEN THE EXPRESSION OF
NEGATIVE EMOTION AND FUTURE WELL-BEING:
THE ROLE OF DISCLOSURE MODALITY IN AN
EAST ASIAN AMERICAN POPULATION
by
Lauren Christina Ng
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Lauren Christina Ng
Object Description
| Title | The link between the expression of negative emotion and future well-being: the role of disclosure modality in an East Asian American population |
| Author | Ng, Lauren Christina |
| Author email | laurenng@usc.edu; lauren.c.ng@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-10-21 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-12-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Huey, Stan Jr. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Margolin, Gayla McArdle, John |
| Abstract | One explanation for the effectiveness of experimental disclosure is Exposure Theory (Frattaroli, 2006) which hypothesizes that future well-being is the result of the expression of negative emotion. The goal of this study was to assess whether writing or talking facilitated emotional expression and to determine whether increased emotional expression then predicted improved well-being. Given cultural differences between European Americans and East Asian Americans regarding the utility of, and comfort with, verbalizing negative emotional experiences (Kim, 2002), we hypothesized that writing would evoke more negative emotional expression and would therefore lead to greater improvements in well-being. The results indicated that writing did elicit more negative emotional expression than talking. However, use of negative emotion was not related to improvements in well-being. |
| Keyword | experimental disclosure; negative emotion; well-being; Asian; trauma; culture; narrative; writing; talking |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1860 |
| Rights | Ng, Lauren Christina |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Ng-2525 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Ng-2525.pdf |
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| Full text | THE LINK BETWEEN THE EXPRESSION OF NEGATIVE EMOTION AND FUTURE WELL-BEING: THE ROLE OF DISCLOSURE MODALITY IN AN EAST ASIAN AMERICAN POPULATION by Lauren Christina Ng A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Lauren Christina Ng |
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