TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Zinken, Jörg
A1  - Blakemore, Caroline
A1  - Zinken, Katarzyna
A1  - Butler, Lisa
A1  - Skinner, T. Chas
T1  - Narrating psychological distress: Associations between cross-clausal integration and mental health difficulties
JF  - Applied Psycholinguistics
N2  - Psychological research has emphasized the importance of narrative for a person’s sense of self. Building a coherent narrative of past events is one objective of psychotherapy. However, in guided self-help therapy the patient has to develop this narrative autonomously. Identifying patients’ narrative skills in relation to psychological distress could provide useful information about their suitability for self-help. The aim of this study was to explore whether the syntactic integration of clauses into narrative in texts written by prospective psychotherapy patients was related to mild to moderate psychological distress. Cross-clausal syntax of texts by 97 people who had contacted a primary care mental health service was analyzed. Severity of symptoms associated with mental health difficulties was assessed by a standardized scale (Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation outcome measure). Cross-clausal syntactic integration was negatively correlated with the severity of symptoms. A multiple regression analysis confirmed that the use of simple sentences, finite complement clauses, and coordinated clauses was associated with symptoms (R2 = .26). The results suggest that the analysis of cross-clausal syntax can provide information on patients’ narrative skills in relation to distressing events and can therefore provide additional information to support treatment decisions.
KW  - Psychoanalyse
KW  - Psychotherapie
KW  - Erzählen
KW  - Selbstdarstellung
KW  - Englisch
Y1  - 2011
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-33287
SN  - 1469-1817
SS  - 1469-1817
U6  - https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716410000408
DO  - https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716410000408
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
VL  - 32
IS  - 2
SP  - 263
EP  - 274
ER  -