The present study assessed linguistic mediators on the effects of expressive writing on health-related quality of life (HRQOL), depression and anxiety following myocardial infarction (MI). One hundred and twenty-one cardiac patients were randomised (expressive writing = 61; control = 60), 98 (expressive writing = 47; control = 51) provided pre- and post-data, with 89 (expressive writing = 43; c...

The error-related negativity (ERN), an ERP elicited immediately after errors, is enlarged among individuals with anxiety. The relationship between anxiety and enlarged ERN has spurred interest in understanding potential therapeutic benefits of decreasing its amplitude within anxious individuals. The current study used a tailored intervention-expressive writing-in an attempt to reduce the ERN am...

Investigating the causal factors, effects, and strategies to overcome writing anxiety is aim of this research. A fifth semester student English Education Study Program, Teacher Training Faculty Universitas Tanjungpura with high learning motivation was chosen as participant case study design employed in research by using semi-structured interview document analysis method data collection. The res...

This paper investigates the level and type of writing anxiety among Turkish EFL students along with causes perceived by them their instructors. The self-efficacy was examined, findings obtained, relationship between in classes investigated. To meet these objectives, 176 (A2, intermediate level) 6 instructors enrolled a language preparatory program offered state university Istanbul, Turkey parti...

The purpose of this paper is to develop different guided writing strategies based on media richness theory and further evaluate the effects of these writing strategies on younger students’ writing attitudes in terms of motivation, enjoyment and anxiety. A total of 66 sixth-grade elementary students with an average age of twelve were invited to join the experiment for a period of twelve weeks. A...