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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychooncology. 2014 Feb 11;23(7):766–772. doi: 10.1002/pon.3477

Table 1. Linguistic characteristics of original messages posted to the health-space discussion board.

LIWC Category Proportion of words used

Mean SD Range

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.