Emotional re-experimentation through expressive writing in young university students: Interpretive-phenomenological reflections in times of pandemic Covid-19
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Emotional re-experimentation through expressive writing has proven to be effective and effective in releasing emotions and expressing feelings and thoughts about a painful or traumatic situation. However, the analyses on this tool have focused on a quantitative paradigm, associated with the therapeutic effects of writing, leaving aside the subjective experience of the participants. Based on the absence of qualitative interpretations, The objective of this study was to analyze and understand the subjective experience of a group of young university students who
participated in an exercise of emotional re-experimentation through expressive writing in times of pandemic Covid-19. The qualitative study, with a descriptive exploratory scope, was carried out through a focal group. Data analysis and processing was developed from an interpretive phenomenological analysis (AFI). Among the main results was found that young people mean and catalog that writing processes are beneficial in the reflection of past experiences, which in turn allows them to resignify them and learn from them. It is concluded that the processes of
written re-experimentation are a fundamental tool in the expression of emotions, thoughts and feelings in social situations such as the current one, in which most people do not have access to psychosocial and therapeutic care.
Key words: emotional re-experimentation, expressive writing, phenomenological analysis, university students, subjective experiences
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