Benefits of expressive writing in reducing test anxiety: A randomized controlled trial in Chinese samples

• Lujun Shen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lujun Shen, Lei Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shenlj945@163.com

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation School of Psychology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang City, Henan Province, P. R. China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3060-2067

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• Lei Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lujun Shen, Lei Yang

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation School of Psychology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang City, Henan Province, P. R. China

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• Jing Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation School of Psychology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang City, Henan Province, P. R. China

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• Meng Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation School of Psychology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang City, Henan Province, P. R. China

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