Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education, Science, and Technology (ICEST 2019)

The Effectiveness of Expressive Writing Therapy in Controlling Emotions of Adolescent Inmate

Authors
Eva Meizara Puspita Dewi, Ahmad Ridfah, Usrayanti
Corresponding Author
Usrayanti
Available Online 27 October 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201027.009How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Angry emotions, expressive writing, inmate
Abstract

The present research focuses on teenage angry emotions which are efforts to reduce angry emotions. It used expressive therapy by writing down the deepest thoughts or feelings about depressed individual experiences. The therapy aim to help teens to express their angry emotions in a more positive direction. This study aimed at determining the effectiveness of expressive writing therapy on angry emotions in adolescents in the first class prison in Makassar city with one group pre-test post-test design. The subjects in this study were teenagers aged 16-19 years who had an Anger Rumination Scale (ARS) scores that were classified as very high and high score. The expressive writing therapy is carried out for four consecutive days. Based on the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test results, it is obtained p value = 0.043. The mean of the pre-test is 75 and the mean of the post-test is 45.5. These results indicate that there is a decrease in subject’s angry emotions after writing therapy and expressive writing therapy is effective to reduce teenage angry emotions. Expressive writing therapy can be used as a cathartic tool and can also be used as a help for adolescents to express negative emotions, especially angry emotions.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education, Science, and Technology (ICEST 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
27 October 2020
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.201027.009
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201027.009How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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