Table 5.
All Trajectories: Negative and Positive Commentary.
| Epistemic Commentary | Affective Commentary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Focus | Positive | Negative | Positive | Negative | Totals |
| Patient | 15 | 40 | 55 | ||
| Self | 85 | 14 | 41 | 92 | 232 |
| Situation | 2 | 34 | 36 | ||
| Dyadic relationship | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | |
| Medical | 6 | 1 | 24 | 29 | 60 |
| Social: family, friends, groups | 25 | 4 | 29 | ||
| Religion | 12 | 12 | |||
| Total | 94 | 15 | 122 | 203 | 434 |
Note. Epistemic positive: Epistemic negative 94:15 = 6:1. Affective negative: Affective positive: 203:122 = 1.6:1.