APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Expressive Disclosure Among Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer: The Role of Psychological Distance
Session: Poster Session III
Authors
- Brittany DrakePresenting Author
University of California, Los Angeles - Annette Stanton
UCLA - Carissa Low
The University of Pittsburgh
Abstract
A coding scheme was developed to examine self-distancing in expressive writing essays of women with metastatic breast cancer. The coding was tested against a Linguistic Inquiry Word Count index as a predictor of future depressive symptoms and emerged as a proxy for self-distancing and unique predictor of subsequent depressive symptoms.
Depression
