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. 2025 Aug 14;38:13. doi: 10.5334/irsp.919

Table 2.

Frequency of words produced by at least 10% of participants who produced no emotional words or who produced at least one emotional word.


NO EMOTIONAL WORDS (n = 107) AT LEAST 1 EMOTIONAL WORD (n = 187) χ2(1, N = 294)


n % n %

illness 55 51.40% 83 44.39% 0.48

death 54 50.47% 88 47.06% 0.11

drugs 35 32.71% 19 10.16% 15.26***

sex 34 31.78% 26 13.90% 8.54**

blood 19 17.76% 10 5.35% 9.41**

HIV 17 15.89% 9 4.81% 8.46**

syring 15 14.02% 11 5.88% 4.59*

immunity 14 13.08% 14 7.49% 2.02

condom 11 10.28% 2 1.07% 12.23***

promiscuity 11 10.28% 7 3.74% 4.40*

incurable 10 9.35% 25 13.37% 0.84

addiction 0 0.00% 30 16.04% p < .001

Note. *p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001. For “addiction” a Fisher exact test was performed.