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. 2020 Jun 24;17(12):4552. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17124552

Table 1.

Word categories with significant differences between “before” and “after” in Weibo (n = 850).

SCLIWC Category Name Before Lockdown After Lockdown p Effect Size d
M1 SD1 M2 SD2
We First-person plural Pronoun 0.00116752 0.001512455 0.002442816 0.002243907 0.000 *** 0.674
Motion Motion 0.025831994 0.019530379 0.018399454 0.009675841 0.000 *** 0.455
Religion Religion 0.002540956 0.002514763 0.003610935 0.002649443 0.000 *** 0.401
I First-person singular pronoun 0.012875111 0.007807225 0.010321953 0.006449756 0.000 *** 0.391
Social Social 0.029713574 0.012688112 0.034711722 0.012327484 0.000 *** 0.375
Youpl Second-person plural pronoun 0.000306648 0.000688167 0.000724517 0.001041388 0.000 *** 0.364
Negemo Negative emotion 0.007779827 0.005568892 0.009515898 0.004745883 0.009 0.334
Time Time 0.027584026 0.011749097 0.02408661 0.009783141 0.000 *** 0.325
Certain Certain 0.006946484 0.004624027 0.00833264 0.003605291 0.000 *** 0.308
Home Home 0.002152596 0.002465285 0.002935781 0.002730609 0.000 *** 0.306
Humans Humans 0.008192476 0.005123264 0.010069752 0.004594877 0.000 *** 0.306
Money Money 0.007305661 0.007514546 0.005138734 0.004664296 0.000 *** 0.278
Preps Preposition 0.015862793 0.008304327 0.017603575 0.006868765 0.000 *** 0.247
Discrep Discrepancy 0.011271717 0.005658052 0.012859929 0.005581719 0.000 *** 0.235
Inhibition Inhibition 0.002031626 0.002027422 0.002571519 0.001937226 0.000 *** 0.234
Affect Affect 0.03540768 0.012714117 0.039041458 0.013830077 0.000 *** 0.230

*** p < 0.001. SCLIWC—the Simplified Chinese LIWC (Language Inquiry and Word Count) dictionary; M1—the mean of the “before lockdown” group; SD1—the standard deviation of the “before lockdown” group; M2—the mean of the “after lockdown” group; SD2—the standard deviation of the “after lockdown” group.