Table 4.

Study 2: Comparison of writing in the current research with other forms of linguistic expression (Pennebaker et al., 2015b).

	Means from current research		Means from Pennebaker et al. (2015b)
Word type	Hopes	Duties	Blogs	Expressive writing	Novels	Natural speech	NY times	Twitter
HOPES HIGHER
Emotional tone	69.49	54.62	54.50	38.60	37.06	79.29	43.61	72.24
Discrepancy	4.77	2.61	1.56	1.74	1.48	1.45	0.89	1.54
DUTIES HIGHER
Social processes	2.27	4.78	8.95	8.69	12.26	10.42	7.62	10.47
Family	0.44	1.87	0.46	0.77	0.39	0.31	0.33	0.36