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Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2021 Jan 28;136:39–46. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.01.019

Table 3.

LIWC speech features associated with EE subtypes based on a significant Spearman rank correlation or identification from the Boruta algorithm

Spearman rank correlation Cohen’s d (95% CI) p-value
Criticism
 Adjectives −0.20 0.41 (0.03, 0.78) 0.02
 Adverb −0.18 0.26 (−0.12, 0.63) 0.04
 Anger* 0.41 −0.90 (−1.29, −0.51) <0.001
 Anxiety* 0.05 0.01 (−0.36, 0.38) 0.55
 Differentiation 0.18 −0.37 (−0.74, 0.00) 0.04
 Female references −0.18 0.39 (0.01, 0.76) 0.04
 Informal language* −0.20 0.41 (0.03, 0.78) 0.03
 Insight* −0.17 0.41 (0.04, 0.79) 0.06
 Male references 0.20 −0.47 (−0.85, −0.10) 0.03
 Negate* 0.20 −0.32 (−0.70, 0.05) 0.02
 Negative emotions 0.25 −0.41 (−0.78, −0.03) 0.005
 Nonfluencies −0.19 0.34 (−0.03, 0.71) 0.04
 Risk 0.18 −0.35 (−0.72, 0.03) 0.05
 Tentative* 0.28 −0.52 (−0.90, −0.15) 0.002
 Tone (emotional tone) −0.19 0.36 (−0.01, 0.74) 0.04
Emotional Overinvolvement
 Affect words* 0.22 −0.44 (−0.83, −0.05) 0.01
 Auxiliary verbs* 0.26 −0.60 (−0.99, −0.21) 0.004
 Biological processes* 0.24 −0.64 (−1.03, −0.24) 0.007
 Function words* 0.19 −0.41 (−0.80, −0.03) 0.03
 Informal language* −0.27 0.61 (0.22, 1.00) 0.003
 Male references* 0.19 −0.32 (−0.71, 0.07) 0.04
 Nonfluencies* −0.24 0.62 (0.23, 1.01) 0.007
 Perceptual processes* 0.31 −0.68 (−1.08, −0.29) <0.001
 Personal pronouns* 0.23 −0.51 (−0.90, −0.12) 0.01
 Positive emotions* 0.18 0.52 (0.13, 0.91) 0.05
 See* 0.28 −0.67 (−1.06, −0.28) 0.002
 Six-letter words* −0.17 0.43 (0.05, 0.82) 0.07
 Tentative* −0.22 0.52 (0.13, 0.91) 0.02
 Verbs* 0.19 −0.45 (−0.84, −0.06) 0.04
Warmth
 Affiliation 0.18 −0.33 (−0.80, 0.14) 0.04
 Anxiety* −0.23 0.50 (−0.07, 0.87) 0.01
 Body −0.22 0.54 (0.07, 1.01) 0.01
 Filler 0.14 −0.36 (−0.83, 0.11) 0.12
 Negate* −0.25 0.63 (0.15, 1.10) 0.007
 Negative emotions* −0.28 0.75 (0.28, 1.23) 0.002
 Nonfluencies* 0.02 −0.10 (−0.57, 0.36) 0.81
 Positive emotions* 0.10 −0.18 (−0.65, −0.28) 0.28
 Tone 0.22 −0.56 (−1.04, −0.09) 0.02
 Word count 0.20 −0.47 (−0.94, −0.00) 0.03
*

indicates speech features used in final SVM classification for that EE subtype