Table 2.
Names, exemplary words, and unstandardized prevalences of topics (n=21) and LIWC categories (n=15) in a corpus of comment threads from the ED community on the social media website Reddit.
| Name | Exemplary wordsa | Prevalence in corpusb, mean (SD) | ||
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Prepandemic threads | Midpandemic threads | |
| Topics | ||||
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Affect | feel hate brain bad just like els | 11.16 (5.33) | 11.58 (5.49) |
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Social support | hope happi deserv thank proud better strong | 7.2 (5.67) | 8.33 (6.69) |
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Time | back month ve start ago sinc now | 6.81 (4.12) | 6.68 (4.09) |
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Binge/restrict | bing fast tomorrow day restrict urg christma | 6.91 (6.60) | 5.76 (5.68) |
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Meals | hungri eat meal food dinner hunger lunch | 5.98 (5.33) | 6.30 (5.87) |
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Romantic relationships | friend tell boyfriend said ask told partner | 5.64 (5.26) | 6.12 (5.77) |
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Purging | ive im throat cant ur vomit spit | 6.49 (6.45) | 5.22 (5.76) |
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Weight loss/gain | gain scale pound lbs lose weight maintain | 5.42 (7.55) | 5.62 (7.62) |
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Domestic life | home hous room kitchen money groceri car | 4.21 (5.61) | 4.26 (5.99) |
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Mental health | disord anorexia behavior valid mental ed behaviour | 3.80 (4.30) | 4.66 (4.86) |
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EDc treatment | doctor hospit treatment appoint medic inpati therapist | 3.81 (7.15) | 4.16 (7.23) |
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Exercise | burn sleep gym workout faint exercis dizzi | 3.93 (5.87) | 3.94 (6.13) |
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Low calorie foods | veggi vegan salad veget soup carrot sauc | 3.84 (8.43) | 3.45 (7.90) |
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Body dysmorphia | mirror attract photo skinnier compliment skinni thinner | 3.7 (5.71) | 3.74 (5.79) |
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Drinks | drink coffe tea soda coke caffein sweeten | 4.08 (9.60) | 3.14 (8.16) |
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Binge foods | cooki chocol peanut cake cream chip pizza | 3.91 (7.56) | 3.20 (6.81) |
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EDs and society | peopl cultur judg societi shame agre opinion | 3.07 (4.08) | 3.66 (4.69) |
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Entertainment | movi song hair scene mukbang video film | 2.89 (6.68) | 2.68 (6.21) |
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Appearance | cloth wear hip boob jean waist shirt | 2.95 (7.43) | 2.47 (6.85) |
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ED communities | sub reddit post subreddit pro account delet | 2.15 (4.86) | 2.69 (5.98) |
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Development of ED | sister parent grade mom school teacher mum | 2.04 (2.99) | 2.32 (3.29) |
| LIWCd categories | ||||
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Positive emotion | love, nice, sweet | 3.41 (2.70) | 3.40 (2.54) |
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Negative emotion | hurt, ugly, nasty | 3.64 (2.66) | 3.57 (2.33) |
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Anxiety | worried, fearful | 0.58 (0.95) | 0.67 (0.94) |
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Sadness | crying, grief, sad | 0.87 (1.27) | 0.83 (1.10) |
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Cognitive processes | cause, know, ought | 13.45 (4.70) | 14.26 (4.27) |
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Insight | think, know | 2.48 (1.92) | 2.69 (1.74) |
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Question marks | ? | 1.41 (3.55) | 0.99 (1.99) |
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Exclamation marks | ! | 1.06 (2.85) | 0.94 (2.74) |
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Social words | mate, talk, they | 6.30 (4.57) | 6.76 (4.49) |
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First-person singular | I, me, mine | 10.08 (4.07) | 10.01 (3.78) |
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Third-person singular | she, her, him | 0.59 (1.45) | 0.66 (1.51) |
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Body | cheek, hands, spit | 1.41 (2.10) | 1.28 (1.70) |
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Health | clinic, flu, pill | 1.67 (2.13) | 1.60 (1.73) |
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Ingestion | dish, eat, pizza | 4.18 (3.72) | 3.88 (3.36) |
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Death | bury, coffin, kill | 0.12 (0.51) | 0.10 (0.40) |
aFor topics, exemplary words are the most characteristic words as measured by the FREX metric [37]. For LIWC categories, exemplary words are taken from the LIWC manual [40].
bFor topics, prevalence in corpus is measured as the percentage of each topic in the corpus. For LIWC categories, it represents the relative percentage of category words per thread.
cED: eating disorder.
dLIWC: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count.