TABLE 2.

Comparison of personal pronouns between early and later stages.

Pronouns categories	Early stage (N = 50)		Later stage (N = 28)		T	p	Cohen’s d
	M	SD	M	SD
First-person singular	4502.60	366.35	3926.43	535.64	5.62	0.000***	1.26
First-person plural	242.05	30.94	368.15	69.41	–9.12	0.000***	2.35
Second-person singular	1454.14	171.12	1071.12	141.67	8.18	0.000***	3.16
Second-person plural	96.27	14.64	156.21	31.88	–9.41	0.000***	0.72
Third-person singular	532.59	52.79	523.76	86.55	0.56	0.577	0.12
Third-person plural	69.46	10.35	121.44	28.87	–9.20	0.000***	0.67

“Early stage” represents the word frequency from December 1, 2019, to January 20, 2020. “Later stage” represents the word frequency from January 21, 2020 to February 16, 2020. ***p < 0.001.