摘要： This study investigated Emotional Intelligence (EI) as a moderator for the association between emotional expression and adaptive trauma processing, as measured by depressive symptoms. Using Pennebaker’s written emotional expression paradigm, 105 participants were assigned to either a conventional trauma-writing or religious trauma-writing condition. Depressive symptoms were assessed at baseline and again at one-month post writing. No significant association between EI and religiousness was found at baseline. Results indicated a three-way interaction among EI, trauma severity, and writing condition on depressive symptoms at follow-up. For the religious trauma-writing condition only, there was a significant difference between high- versus low-EI participants who experienced more severe trauma in depressive symptoms at follow-up, such that low-EI participants registered less depressive symptoms than high-EI participants; while there was no significant difference between low versus high EI for participants with less severe trauma. These findings encourage further investigation of the conditions under which religion may be a beneficial factor in trauma adaptation. 出版者： Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications 出版日期： 2016-07 出處： International journal of psychiatry in medicine, 2016-07, Vol.51 (5), p.431-441 版權： The Author(s) 2016 識別號： ISSN: 0091-2174 識別號： EISSN: 1541-3527 識別號： DOI: 10.1177/0091217416680198
