Table 1. Linguistic characteristics of original messages posted to the health-space discussion board.
LIWC Category | Proportion of words used | ||
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Mean | SD | Range | |
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Positive emotion | .039 | .053 | 0-1 |
Negative emotion | .017 | .023 | 0-.33 |
First person singular | .086 | .044 | 0-.22 |
First person plural | .007 | .015 | 0-.14 |
Second person | .018 | .031 | 0-.25 |
Third person | .010 | .016 | 0-.08 |
Note. N = 525 original messages; average word count per message was 125, SD =143.2.