Writing about life story chapters increases self‐esteem: Three experimental studies

Objective The purpose of the present three studies was to examine experimentally whether writing about life story chapters would increase self‐esteem, self‐concept clarity, and meaning. Method In study 1, 179 participants rated state self‐esteem and self‐concept clarity before and after they described either four important life story chapters or four famous Americans. In study 2, 141 new participants completed a similar procedure to study 1 and...