Expressive writing
Expressive writing is a specific way of expressing one’s thoughts and feelings about a stressful or traumatic experiences in languages. Compared with individuals assigned to write about trivial topics, experimental participants who wrote about their deepest thoughts and feelings showed reductions in physician visits, improvements in immune function, increased antibody production and psychological well being for several months after the expressive writing intervention. Across writing episodes, participants whose essays contained causality and insight experienced the greatest health and behaviorual benefits. Kitty Klein and Adriel Boals of North Carolina State University noted that expressive writing reduces intrusive and avoidant thinking about a stressful experience, thus freeing working memory resources.
Source: Klein,K and Boals, A. (2001). Expressive writing can increase working memory capacity. Journal of experimental psychology: General. 130,3,520-533.
Personality traits and suicidal ideation
Suicidal ideation generally refers to wanting to take one's own life or thinking about suicide without actually making plans to commit suicide. It is the intent to commit suicide. Prevention of committing suicide is possible by understanding one’s suicidal ideation. Andrea P. Chioqueta, Tore C. Stiles (2005) noted relation between personality traits and the ideation among the university students. They administered NEO Personality Inventory Revised (NEO-PI-R), the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), and the Hopkin’s Symptom Checklist-25. They noted suicidal ideation is positively related to depression and negatively related to self-consciousness .
Source: Andrea P. Chioqueta, Tore C. Stiles (2005). Personality traits and the development of depression, hopelessness, and suicide ideation. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 6, 1283-1291.
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