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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 2. Linguistic predictors of peer responsiveness.

OR 95% CI B Wald test p

Word count 1.30** 1.1-1.5 .263 12.027 .001
First-person singular pronouns 1.03 1.0-1.1 .026 1.249 .264
First-person plural pronouns 1.02 1.0-1.1 .021 .125 .723
Second-person pronouns .92* 0.9-1.0 -.086 5.446 .020
Third-person pronouns 1.05 1.0-1.2 .045 .531 .466
Positive emotion .94* 0.9-1.0 -.065 4.536 .033
Negative emotion 1.01 1.0-1.1 .012 .099 .753

Note. Logistic regression models predicted peer responsiveness (at least one reply to original message) or lack of peer responsiveness (no replies to original messages)