Word Use in Emotional Narratives about Failed Romantic Relationships and Subsequent Mental Health

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The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods (2010, unknown): “Participants in describing a painful relationship breakup used more cognitive mechanisms, particularly causal words, in describing the breakup and postbreakup compared with the prebreakup (Boals & Klein, 2005).”
Discovering Shifts to Suicidal Ideation from Mental Health Content in Social Media (2016, unknown): “Broadly use of these tokens indicate a negative attitude, experience of emotional distress and self-focus [7]; an observation that aligns with our observations made above related to the measure of interpersonal awareness.”
Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events. (2010, background): “One of the proposed mechanisms for these effects is helping participants to make meaning of their stressor (Boals & Klein, 2005; Pennebaker, 1997).”
Detecting Changes in Suicide Content Manifested in Social Media Following Celebrity Suicides (2015, background): “In fact, together with the fact that they also exhibit fewer social and personal concerns, it is likely that the postsuicide cohort in SW share more personal stories and in general, high self-preoccupation [4].”