TABLE III:

Linguistics frequencies and their comparison between depressed and non-depressed groups of LIWC features. ns indicates p>.05

	Depressed Mothers		Non-Depressed Mothers
Variable	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p-value
Word count	853.38	283.37	964.04	379.73	ns
Personal pronouns
First-person singular pronouns (e.g. I, me, mine)	4.59	1.99	3.92	1.52	.047
Second-person pronouns (e.g. you, your, thou)	7.72	1.86	7	2.24	.044
Affect	5.48	1.39	5.42	1.92	ns
Positive emotion (e.g. love, nice, sweet)	3.81	1.17	4.1	1.67	ns
Negative emotion (e.g. hurt, ugly, nasty)	1.6	0.9	1.29	0.86	.011
Anger (e.g. hate, kill, annoyed)	0.63	0.66	0.42	0.54	.026
Sadness (e.g. crying, grief, sad)	0.25	0.27	0.21	0.18	ns
Anxiety (e.g. worried, fearful)	0.18	0.21	0.18	0.24	ns
Cognitive process (e.g. cause, know ought)	15.3	2.5	14.98	2.18	ns
Time
Focus past (e.g. ago, did, talk)	2.26	1.09	2.7	1.37	ns
Focus present (e.g. today, is, now)	18.27	2.36	17.06	2.14	.002
Focus future (e.g. may, will, soon)	1.83	0.72	2.05	0.79	ns