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. 2020 Sep 23;4(9):e17424. doi: 10.2196/17424

Table 2.

Results of natural language analysis for personality traits, values, emotional tone, and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count for treatment groups of Next Mission combat veterans and Women Warriors military sexual assault survivors.a

Characteristic NMb combat veterans (n=9) WWc military sexual assault survivors (n=6)
  F testd (df) Cohen d P value Effect size (partial η2) F testd (df) Cohen d P value Effect size (partial η2)
Personality traits








Openness 6.372 (1,8) 1.34 .04 0.443 9.740 (1,5) 1.47 .03 0.661

Agreeableness 10.305 (1,8) 1.77 .01 0.777 12.211 (1,5) 1.68 .02 0.709

Extroversion 12.446 (1,8) 1.52 .001 0.609 7.105 (1,5) –1.58 .045 0.587

Conscientiousness 27.923 (1,8) –2.83 .001 0.563 1.929 (1,5) –0.53 .22 0.278

Emotional range 15.473 (1,8) –1.74 .004 0.659 1.1014 (1,5) 0.58 .36 0.169
Values and needse                

Curiosity 3.227 (1,8) 0.84 .11 0.287 5.971 (1,5) 1.44 .06 0.544

Harmony 7.787 (1,8) 1.42 .02 0.493 N/Af N/A N/A N/A

Structure 1.865 (1,8) –0.44 .21 0.189 2.784 (1,5) 0.87 .16 0.358

Closeness 17.672 (1,8) 2.23 .003 0.688 10.006 (1,5) 1.23 .03 0.667

Stability 6.518 (1,8) 1.49 .03 0.449 N/A N/A N/A N/A

Helping others 21.715 (1,8) 2.06 .002 0.731 3.077 (1,5) 0.35 .14 0.381

Excitement 23.635 (1,8) 2.34 .001 0.747 0.391 (1,5) 0.15 .56 0.072

Life pleasure 18.926 (1,8) 1.92 .002 0.703 8.511 (1,5) 1.30 .03 0.630

Tradition 9.005 (1,8) –1.54 .02 0.530 1.238 (1,5) 0.12 .32 0.198

Achievement 9.414 (1,8) 1.01 .02 0.541 7.294 (1,5) 1.28 .04 0.593

Love N/A N/A N/A N/A 13.474 (1,5) 1.58 .01 0.729

Ideal N/A N/A N/A N/A 3.173 (1,5) 1.03 .14 0.388
Emotional tone                

Sadness 10.852 (1,8) –1.01 .01 0.576 1.164 (1,6) –0.20 .33 0.283

Disgust 7.660 (1,8) –1.25 .02 0.489 1.413 (1,5) –0.74 .29 0.220

Joy 11.017 (1,8) 1.81 .01 0.579 1.977 (1,5) 0.84 .22 0.283

Fear 0.114 (1,8) –0.17 .74 0.014 4.365 (1,5) –0.80 .09 0.466

Anger 0.542 (1,8) –0.32 .48 0.063 0.518 (1,5) –0.40 .50 0.094
LIWCg analysis                

Analytical thinking 0.229 (1,8) 0.20 .65 0.028 0.094 (1,5) –0.12 .77 0.018

Authenticity 7.326 (1,8) 0.92 .03 0.478 5.457 (1,5) 0.37 .07 0.522

Clout 8.651 (1,8) 0.90 .02 0.520 7.920 (1,5) 1.47 .04 0.613

Emotional tone 6.016 (1,8) 0.92 .04 0.429 4.597 (1,5) 1.17 .09 0.479

aN=15.

bNM: Next Mission.

cWW: Women Warriors.

dF values reported are from repeated-measures multivariate analysis of variance (rMANOVA), with effect sizes calculated using both Cohen d from repeated-measures t tests and partial η2 from rMANOVA tests. Significance calculated from rMANOVA test with Bonferroni correction.

eFor each program group, 10 identified values were outputted by IBM Watson Personality Insights based on highest density, thus differ slightly between programs.

fN/A: not applicable.

gLIWC: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count.