Table 2.
\ | EP Composite | ToM Composite | AIHQ Total | ||||||
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Scz | Con | Full | Scz | Con | Full | Scz | Con | Full | |
Affect words | |||||||||
Positive emotion words (%) | −.11 | .12 | .00 | −.19 | .28^ | .05 | −.16 | −.16 | −.18 |
Negative emotion words (%) | −.04 | −.00 | −.06 | −.11 | −.43* | −.30** | .21 | .19 | .24* |
Pronoun use | |||||||||
Pronouns total (%) | .06 | −.03 | −.10 | −.02 | −.23 | −.33** | .19 | .05 | .25* |
Personal pronouns (%) | .08 | .05 | −.03 | −.00 | −.20 | −.25* | .18 | .06 | .22* |
First-person singular (%) | .01 | .00 | −.08 | −.16 | −.44* | −.41*** | .21 | .06 | .22* |
First-person plural (%) | −.03 | .18 | .12 | .03 | .23 | .20 | .06 | −.03 | −.04 |
Second person (%) | −.04 | −.29* | −.16 | −.01 | −.01 | −.05 | −.12 | −.12 | −.09 |
Third-person singular (%) | .16 | .21 | .08 | .34* | .21 | .17 | .04 | .20 | .15 |
Third-person plural (%) | .05 | .27^ | .12 | −.03 | .27^ | .13 | .03 | −.10 | −.05 |
Impersonal pronouns (%) | −.04 | −.04 | −.12 | −.03 | −.04 | −.12 | −.01 | −.03 | .04 |
p <.10;
p < 0.05;
p < 0.01;
p <.001
Emotion Perception Composite = Z-transformed sum of performance on Face Emotion Identification Task (FEIT) and Face Emotion Discrimination Task (FEDT). Theory of Mind Composite = Z-transformed sum of performance on Hinting Task and TASIT (The Awareness of Social Inferences Test) – Social Minimal Subscale. When controlling for overall word count, all significant correlations remained significant.