Table 1.
Story version | Word count | Abstraction words (%) | Emotion words (%) | |||
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M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
No emotional or abstract words (“relaxing”) | 127.1 | 5.9 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 |
Abstract words (“reflecting”) | 116.4 | 4.3 | 21.5 | 2.1 | 5.0 | 2.7 |
Emotional words (“experiencing”) | 123.5 | 7.4 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 18.1 | 1.7 |
Emotional and abstract words (“connecting”) | 117.5 | 6.4 | 14.2 | 3.7 | 16.7 | 3.2 |
Frequency of occurrence, in percent (M, mean and SD, standard deviation) of words classified as abstract or emotional in the TCM dictionary in the four story versions relaxing, reflecting, experiencing, and connecting.