TABLE 3.
Comparison of group-related words between early and later stages.
| Categories | Early stage (N = 50) |
Later stage (N = 28) |
T | p | Cohen’s d | ||
| M | SD | M | SD | ||||
| Family | 23.79 | 11.68 | 41.84 | 19.94 | –4.39 | 0.000*** | 1.10 |
| Kinship | 2.82 | 1.94 | 6.61 | 6.90 | –2.85 | 0.008** | 0.75 |
| Neighbor | 2.75 | 1.05 | 5.77 | 3.99 | –3.94 | 0.000*** | 1.04 |
| Acquaintances | 1.82 | 3.14 | 0.70 | 0.65 | 2.45 | 0.018* | 0.49 |
| Colleagues | 17.43 | 6.88 | 11.94 | 4.41 | 3.80 | 0.000*** | 0.95 |
“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, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05.