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Expressing Negative Emotions Improves A Person Physical Health
Hypothesis: Expressing negative emotions improves a person’s physical health over the next 6 months.
There was a random selection of fifty female and fifty male introductory psychology students to participate in the study. There were people of all races, ages, and economic statuses included in the population. Each student knows the study will include every person to do a writing sample. After a small discussion each person signed a consent form to participate in the study.
To obtain an experimental group and a control group the student’s last names were put into alphabetical order. There was an A/B rotation straight down the list that gave the students their group. All fifty A’s were in the experimental group. A’s wrote a story about the saddest event that ever took place in their life. All fifty B’s were in the control group. B’s wrote a story about the happiest event they had ever experienced. This gave us the independent variable. That was whether or not a person expresses negative emotion. All papers that were written were anonymously done. This was to insure the privacy of all participants.
Physical health of each participant was measure every two weeks. A questionnaire was given to each person. It contained questions about the common colds they experienced. Along with any flu symptoms, headaches, physical discomfort they experienced from an illness. Physical . . . read more.
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