Table 2.

Computed Text Analysis of Qualitative Responses

	Mean (95% CI)	General Database Mean	Cohen’s d (General)	Expressive Writing Database Mean	Cohen’s d (Expressive)
Total Word Count	377.4 (297.6, 457.1)	-	-	-	-
Authenticity (percentile)	83.8 (79.7, 87.9)	49.2	2.20***	76.0	0.50***
First-Person Singular	9.8% (9.0%, 10.7%)	5.0%	1.49***	8.7%	0.35**
Affect Language	4.2% (3.6%, 4.8%)	5.6%	0.65***	4.8%	0.27*
Positive	2.1% (1.7%, 2.5%)	3.7%	1.16***	2.6%	0.34*
Negative	2.1% (1.7%, 2.4%)	1.8%	0.18	2.1%	0.04

Note. General database mean and expressive writing database mean data are from the LIWC 2015 handbook (Pennebaker et al. 2015). Effect size estimates are Cohen’s d from a one-sample t-test relative to sample mean data.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001