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| Id | 601 | |
| Author | Pettersson C. | |
| Title | Psychological well-being, improved self-confidence, and social capacity: bibliotherapy from a user perspective | |
| Reference | Pettersson C.; Psychological well-being, improved self-confidence, and social capacity: bibliotherapy from a user perspective ;Journal of Poetry Therapy vol:31 issue: 2.0 page:124.0 |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85043312676&doi=10.1080%2f08893675.2018.1448955&partnerID=40&md5=17867dc81cf622b6fd20e19fe5fa6df1 |
| Abstract | This article in the field of bibliotherapy investigates how participation in a reading circle can contribute to psychological well-being in people with mental illness such as long-term depression and anxiety. The perspective employed is user-centered and focused on the users’ statements about their health and well-being. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, the study which the article is based on, showed that participants had short-term improved psychological well-being after participating in a guided reading circle. Interviews clarified that their social well-being had been positively influenced in various ways, including greater self-confidence and increased social interaction. The choice of–short stories and poetry–was significant to the positive results achieved by the participants, as were the discussions about the texts, the presence of a circle leader with good leadership qualities, and the opportunity to be included in a group whose membership remained constant throughout the series of sessions. © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. |
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| In this respect, a clear improvement in psychological well-being can be observed in two of the four participants. . | Interviews clarified that their social well-being had been positively influenced in various ways, including greater self-confidence and increased social interaction. . | Psychological well-being The reading circle was apparently meaningful to the participants and taking part had a positive effect on their perception of their health and psychological well-being. . | This article in the field of bibliotherapy investigates how participation in a reading circle can contribute to psychological well-being in people with mental illness such as long-term depression and anxiety. . | Their common interest has generated further topics of conversation, a mutual exchange of literature recommendations, and strengthened relationships. . | The participants in this study also stressed thoughts and feelings usually viewed in traditional bibliotherapy as insights, and they related absorbing the realities in the texts and seeing themselves in contexts larger than their own lives. . |
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