A Multilevel Analysis on Temporal Focus: Future-Focused Language in Trauma-Related Expressive Writing Predicts Daily Anxiety

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Keyword: Psychopathology

Abstract: We analyzed 159 trauma-related expressive writing samples using multilevel modeling to examine within- and between-person associations of temporal language with daily anxiety. Participants reported greater anxiety on days when more future-focused language was used, suggesting the utility of linguistic markers as diagnostic indicators of persistent anxiety risk following trauma exposure.

• Virinca Jaipuriyar (Presenting Author)
• Rhoen Hoff (Author)
• Skyler Jackson (Author)
• Abigail Batchelder (Author)
• Tami Sullivan (Author)
• Jillian Scheer (Author)