TABLE 4.
Comparison of relationship-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 | ||||
| Son | 23.12 | 5.24 | 19.24 | 6.59 | 2.86 | 0.006** | 0.65 |
| Daughter | 15.38 | 4.24 | 14.38 | 12.29 | 0.42 | 0.678 | 0.11 |
| Father | 55.95 | 12.34 | 55.04 | 12.67 | 0.309 | 0.758 | 0.07 |
| Mother | 118.66 | 15.97 | 126.74 | 20.60 | –1.93 | 0.058 | 0.44 |
| Brother | 221.49 | 30.23 | 193.64 | 31.98 | 3.82 | 0.000*** | 0.90 |
| Sister | 167.33 | 25.40 | 129.31 | 19.36 | 6.87 | 0.000*** | 1.68 |
| Uncle | 36.06 | 9.72 | 43.74 | 15.68 | –2.67 | 0.009** | 0.59 |
| Aunt | 43.27 | 10.72 | 41.84 | 6.06 | 0.75 | 0.456 | 0.16 |
| Niece | 1.23 | 1.09 | 1.76 | 1.40 | –1.89 | 0.063 | 0.42 |
| Nephew | 1.80 | 1.32 | 1.75 | 1.17 | 0.17 | 0.867 | 0.04 |
| Grandfather | 16.38 | 7.57 | 23.19 | 13.92 | –2.40 | 0.022* | 0.61 |
| Grandmother | 16.47 | 5.45 | 20.93 | 6.25 | –3.29 | 0.002** | 0.76 |
| Grandson | 1.71 | 0.99 | 1.82 | 1.65 | –0.37 | 0.738 | 0.08 |
| Granddaughter | 0.57 | 0.33 | 2.47 | 9.46 | –1.06 | 0.298 | 0.28 |
“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.