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. 2025 Jul 1;36(4):248–260. doi: 10.3766/jaaa.240108

Table 2.

Consensus Results on Preselected Items from the General LIWC Linguistic Categories

Percent Agreementa
Item Round 1 (16 participants) Round 2 (12 participants) Between-Round Status
Consensus met
 Drives: achievement 941 1000 Stable
 Cognition 691 751 Gained
  Cognitive processes 820 751 Stable
  Insight 820 831 Stable
  Causation 881 1000 Stable
  Differentiation 691 830 Gained
 Affect—positive tone 941 1000 Stable
 Affect—negative tone 941 1000 Stable
 Social processes 941 1000 Stable
  Social behavior 1000 1000 Stable
   Communication 941 1000 Stable
  Social referents 881 1000 Stable
 Motives: allure 691 830 Gained
 Perceptual: auditory 1001 1000 Stable
 Perceptual: space 752 830 Stable
 Time 692 830 Gained
 Physical: health 881 1001 Stable
 Lifestyle: work 941 1000 Stable
 Lifestyle: leisure 1001 1000 Stable
 Lifestyle: home 941 1000 Stable
 Lifestyle: money 821 921 Stable
Consensus not met
 Authenticity 441 251 Stable
 I-words 632 581 Stable
 Past focus 501 251 Stable
 Present focus 632 581 Stable
 Cognitive processes: discrepancy 820 581 Lost
a

Consensus level for each item was equated with items having at least 70 percent of the panel members rating an item as “very important/absolutely necessary” (i.e., a score of 3–4 on a Likert scale). The IQR for each item is indicated in superscript.