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KMID : 0981220210210020199
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2021 Volume.21 No. 2 p.199 ~ p.223
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Effects of Compassionate Writing Intervention on Post-adversity Negative Emotions and Pre-Intervention Depressive Symptoms as its Moderator in Undergraduate Students with Interpersonal Adversities
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Cho Seung-Yeon
Cho Yong-Rae
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Abstract
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This study examined the effects of a compassionate writing intervention for several kinds of post-adversity negative emotions and evaluated the role of pre-intervention depressive symptoms as a moderator in the treatment effects. Of the university students who reported a history of interpersonal adversities, 30 were provided with the compassionate writing intervention and 29 with daily writing intervention. Compared with the participants in the condition, those in condition showed a significant decrease in post-adversity anger at 2-week follow-up assessment. For post-adversity betrayal, there was no significant difference between the compassionate writing intervention and the daily writing intervention before intervention, but after intervention there was a significant difference between the two interventions. Significant differences in other kinds of post-adversity negative emotions were not found between the two conditions. At the follow-up, the compassionate writing intervention was superior to the daily writing intervention in the levels of both post-adversity fear and post-adversity guilt among those with higher pre-intervention depression symptoms, but did not among those with lower pre-intervention depression symptoms. In conclusion, these results suggest that the compassionate writing intervention is an efficacious treatment for post-adversity anger and betrayal among undergraduate students who experienced interpersonal adversities, and that the intervention is more effective in reducing post-adversity fear and post-adversity guilt among those who both experienced interpersonal adversities and reported higher pre-intervention depression symptoms.
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KEYWORD
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compassionate writing' post-adversity negative emotions, pre-intervention depression symptoms, self-compassion, interpersonal adversity
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