COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education
Vol. 4 No. 3 (2019)

Expressive writing changes grief into meaning – a sequential explanatory design approach

Setiawati Intan Savitri (Universitas Mercubuana)
Bagus Takwin (Universitas Indonesia)
Amarina Ashar Ariyanto (Universitas Indonesia)
Rachel T.A Aribowo (Universitas Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Dec 2019

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to describe the effect of expressive writing on the level of one’s grief through a sequential design (expressive writing experiments for 3 consecutive days for 15 minutes each days then an analysis of the participant’s writing contents was conducted). This study used a pre-post test matching technique experimental design follow up by content analysis. The total number of participants (both in the experimental and control groups) was 30 (M-age = 21.2; SD = 1.2), lost their parents more than six month. Randomized matching technique was use to divide participant into experimental (expressive writing) and control (non-expressive writing).The baseline score measured by the complicated grieving inventory of >25 (Prigereson, 1995). Results showed that the experimental group had a decreased level of grief relative to the control group, the texts showed an interested result to be further discussed.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

counsedu

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education ISSN: 2548-348X , e-ISSN: 2548-3498 is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal published by Indonesian Counselor Association (IKI). The aim of this journal is to publish high-quality articles dedicated to all aspects of the latest ...