Study of Professional Writers in a Midwestern City (c. 1988)

Investigator: Alice Brand

Population: Writers

Identification method: Participants from large Midwestern city recruited on volunteer basis.

Sampling procedure: Non-random convenience sample.

N and Response rate: Unavailable in work reviewed.

Publication: "Brand, A.G. and P.A. Leckie. 1988. "The Emotions of Professional Writers." Journal of Psychology, 122(5): 421-439.

Summary: Psychological scale data on how writers felt before, at a pause, and after specific writing episodes was used to examine the intensity with which they experienced 20 emotions and the frequency with which these emotions were experienced when writing in general.