Unsuccessful Treatments of "Writer's Block": A Meta-Analysis. Issue 1 (August 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McLean, Derrick C.; Thomas, Benjamin R.
• Is Part Of: Psychological reports. Volume 115:Issue 1(2014)
• Page Start: 276
• Page End: 278
• Publication Date: 2014-08
• Subjects: Psychology -- Periodicals; Psychiatry; Psychology; Psychologie -- Périodiques; Psychology; 150.5
• DOI: 10.2466/28.PR0.115c12z0
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0033-2941

Abstract

A wide literature of the unsuccessful treatment of writer's block has emerged since the early 1970's. Findings within this literature seem to confer generalizability of this procedure; however, small sample sizes may limit this interpretation. This meta-analysis independently analyzed effect sizes for "self-treatments" and "group-treatments" using number of words in the body of the publication as indication of a failure to treat writer's block. Results of the reported findings suggest that group-treatments tend to be slightly more unsuccessful than self-treatments.