HaCohen et al. (2018) identified three types of narratives that emerge in the context of integrating a difficult event into one’s life story. We use their identification while focusing on the quality of emotional involvement evidenced in texts, and combining it with an abstract-content text analysis. This allows us to quantify emotional engagement in Expressive Writing (EW) texts. We analyze personal-experience narratives produced in EW, and examine whether good EW outcome cases (in terms of well-being improvement) would be characterized with different types of narratives than poor outcome cases. Results show that texts produced by good outcome cases presented more emotional involvement than poor cases. Furthermore, good cases presented with a more complex and well-integrated narrative of their story than poor cases. It is suggested that good outcome participants’ writings are more emotionally involved, integrated and personal. Our findings emphasize the importance of context-sensitive and function-oriented accounts of EW texts.

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表达性写作中的情感投入

哈科恩等人。（2018）确定了将困难事件融入个人生活故事的背景下出现的三种叙事类型。我们使用他们的识别，同时关注文本中证明的情感参与的质量，并将其与抽象内容文本分析相结合。这使我们能够量化表达性写作（EW）文本中的情感投入。我们分析了电子战中产生的个人经历叙述，并检查良好的电子战结果案例（在幸福感改善方面）是否会与不良结果案例相比具有不同类型的叙述特征。结果表明，良好结果案例产生的文本比不良案例产生更多的情感参与。此外，好的案例比差的案例具有更复杂、更完整的故事叙述。有人认为，好的结果参与者的写作更加情感化、综合性和个人化。我们的研究结果强调了电子战文本的上下文敏感和功能导向的重要性。