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Laid-off workers who wrote about it found jobs sooner
In a study of 63 laid-off professionals, those who wrote about their thoughts and feelings on the job loss found work sooner.
Among professionals who had been laid off, those who wrote about their thoughts and feelings on losing their job found new work sooner.
The study
In this study of 63 laid-off professionals, the researchers looked at expressive writing as a way of coping with job loss. People who wrote about their thoughts and feelings about the layoff were reemployed more quickly than those in the comparison group.
Starting small
Big changes can be easier to carry when they are put into words. A few minutes of writing about what a change means to you, and how you feel about it, is a small and private way to start working through it.
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References
1. Spera, Buhrfeind, Pennebaker (1993). Expressive writing and coping with job loss. Academy of Management Journal.