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Cognitive Distorsions through Expressive Writing in Depressive Patients within an Intercultural Context
Goláňová, Ivana ; Rodriguez Manchola, Mabel Virginia (referee)
Depression, as one of the most widespread mental illnesses, is responsible for the disability of a large number of people, so it is necessary to pay attention to its diagnosis and treatment. Part of the broad depressive symptomatology is also a cognitive deficit that is shown as an impairment of the cognitive functioning of an individual, including distortion of thinking. This distortion can also be observed in the written presentation of the patients. Expressive writing as a useful therapeutic technique could provide the opportunity to identify cognitive distortions through written text. These distortions can manifest in a higher prevalence of the use of absolute words, self-focused language (SFL), often manifested by personal and possessive pronouns, as well as emotionally negative words. On the contrary, there are few positive emotional and cognitive words in texts of depressive patients. The research was carried out in an intercultural context, so the studied cultures of Czech republic and Mexico were presented. The research extracted words from texts of expressive writing for selected categories in both languages. That can be further used to build a basis for the dictionary to study this phenomenon. The statistical analysis confirms the equivalence of this phenomenon in both samples, except...
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