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. 2021 Mar 25;4:55. doi: 10.1038/s41746-021-00419-2

Table 2.

Linguistic Enquiry Word Count (LIWC) categories significantly associated with language used in Facebook posts of healthcare super-utilizers.

Category Cohen’s D 95% CI
Pronouns
 1st person pronouns 0.75 [0.47, 1.05]
 Impersonal pronouns 0.41 [0.14, 0.68]
Time orientation
 Present focus 0.57 [0.29, 0.86]
Perceptual processes
 Feeling 0.56 [0.29, 0.85]
Bodily processes
 Body 0.54 [0.26, 0.82]
 Sexual 0.49 [0.22, 0.77]
Cognitive processes
 Differentiation 0.47 [0.20, 0.76]
 Tentativeness 0.38 [0.11, 0.66]
 Discrepancies 0.37 [0.1, 0.64]
Drives
 Reward 0.47 [0.20, 0.75]
Function words
 Adverbs 0.53 [0.26, 0.81]
 Negations 0.49 [0.22, 0.78]
Negative emotions
 Swearing 0.35 [0.08, 0.63]

Only significant categories after Benjamini–Hochberg p-correction and p < 0.05 are shown.