Question

According to Pennebaker (1990), journaling about our angry feelings and their sources can be physically and psychologically beneficial becauseA. "opening up" and venting reduce our aggressive impulses.B. such self-disclosures often result in insights and increased self-awareness.C. such self-disclosures often yield apologies from the offending party.D. "opening up" and venting our feelings enhances mutual understanding.

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

B. such self-disclosures often result in insights and increased self-awareness.

Step-by-step explanation:

James W. Pennebaker is a social psychologist who proposed writing therapy as a way of ameliorating the feelings about the past events or emotional troubles. The author explains in his proposed way of therapy how the patient releases the emotional pains through the act of transmitting the past situations on the paper. In this way, they are able to recreate the scenes in some way and understand more about the feelings to increase the self-control and self-esteem about their whole situation.

He says, that the relationship that exists between the linguistic patterns and the psychological condition of the individual is directly proportional, therefore when the individual expresses his feelings or memories about a situation, there is a manifestation of relief and improvement in the perception of the individual about it.