Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TURK PSIKOLOJI DERGISI, cilt.38, sa.92, 2023 (SSCI)
The Written Emotional Expression Paradigm is an intervention aimed at expressing emotions and it is applied as writing emotions in a certain time and on consecutive days. It has been found that this intervention has positive effects on both physical and psychological health in various disease groups. The aim of the study was to test the effectiveness of the intervention in terms of depression, anxiety and psychological rigidity with breast cancer patients. For this purpose, 82 female breast cancer patients were randomly assigned to the intervention groups and control group. Participants in the both groups filled out the questionnaire set as pretest, posttest and follow-up (one month after the writing intervention). Demographic Information Form, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II questionnaire set were given to all participants. In addition to these scales, appropriate writing booklets were given to the participants in the intervention groups. According to the ANOVA and t-Test results, it was determined that the intervention applied had an effect on decreasing the depression and psychological rigidity levels for a short time only in the positive writing group. It was found that the intervention applied did not have the expected effect on the level of anxiety. There are findings in the related literature that this intervention method is both effective and does not show the expected effect. It has been observed that the results of the present study are similar to the literature in this respect.