EXPRESSIVE WRITING AND COPING WITH JOB LOSS.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 June 1994
Stefanie P. Spera, Eric D. Buhrfeind, James W. Pennebaker
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In an experiment with 63 recently unemployed professionals, those assigned to write about the thoughts and emotions surrounding their job loss were reemployed more quickly than those who wrote abou...
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