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Emotional Expression; Computational text analysis; Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count; Emotional Identification;
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Comparison Of Text Analysis Programs For Identification Of Emotional Expression, Michelle Mcdonnell
Comparison Of Text Analysis Programs For Identification Of Emotional Expression, Michelle Mcdonnell
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
Studies have show that written emotional expression assists in the recovery and alleviates the pain associated with traumatic experiences, cancer diagnoses, and chronic illnesses. Written interventions have been developed to utilize this emotional coping approach. Unfortunately, evaluation of participants and patients written text is time consuming and subjective to the coder. Researchers have developed computational text analysis programs in an attempt to find an alternative to human coders for text analysis. The current study will utilize data from previous research performed by Owen et al., (2005) entitled Randomized Pilot of a Self-Guided Internet Coping Group for Women With Early Stage …