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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2021 Jan 28;136:39–46. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.01.019

Table 1.

Sample Transcript and Associated LIWC Speech Features

“….Um, but I guess in terms of our relationship it’s pretty, yeah and I admit that I’m not always um, appropriate in terms of my interaction with her. I get very irritated and I disengage and then that makes her anxious and she comes back and it keeps, we keep going at it. So, um, I don’t know. I think the biggest thing for me is that I, um, like I said I never wanted to acknowledge that, it was easier for me to say that she was anxious than to say that she has a mood disorder. And I feel guilty about that. And I see the symptoms. I’m in the mental health field and I know what to look for. And I don’t want her to live another 10, 20 years being just miserable because I don’t think she’s happy. So I feel really guilty about that. I think that’s why sometimes I push her away and I get irritable because I want to think it’s something different. I want to think it’s behavioral. I want to think that it’s just normal teen stuff and I know it’s not……”
Word Count (WC) Positive Words Negative Words Posemo Negemo Affect
201 3 7 1.49 3.48 5.97

The table summarizes the non-copyrighted LIWC results involving positive emotion, negative emotion words, and word count. The green highlighted words represent positive emotion words identified by the LIWC. The red highlighted words represent the negative emotions words identified in LIWC. Posemo and Negemo are the percentages of positive and negative emotion words (respectively) in the transcript. Affect is the sum of those two percentages.