European Proceedings Logo

Medical Students' Self-Reflection of Stress Management: A Psycholinguistic Analysis

Table 3: Gender differences in dictionary-based semantic indicators of the text: Mann-Whitney test (Nmen=48, Nwomen=97)

Items Examples W Mr r-bc meannames meanwomen
DRIVES 2222.5 0.659 -0.045 5.059 5.083
discrepancies would, can, want, could 1835.5 0.039 -0.212 2.123 2.326
tentative if, or, any, something 1848.5 0.044 -0.206 2.603 2.957
AFFECT 2015.0 0.189 -0.134 5.821 6.118
Positive tone good, well, new, love 2333.5 0.983 0.002 3.555 3.562
Negative tones bad, wrong, too much, hate 1832.0 0.037 -0.213 2.129 2.431
emotion love, hate, sad 1750.5 0.015 -0.248 2.481 2,867
positive em good, love, happy, hope 1904.5 0.075 -0.182 0.990 1.114
negative em bad, hate, hurt, tired 1804.5 0.028 -0.225 1,350 1,624
Anxiety worry, fear, afraid, nervous 1994.5 0.162 -0.143 0.951 1.127
Anger hate, mad, angry, frustrate* 2131.0 0.378 -0.085 0.065 0.079
Orchard :(, sad, disappoint*, cry 1510.5 < . 001 -0.351 0.070 0.147
SOCIAL 2146.0 0.446 -0.078 7,995 8.215
Family parent*, mother*, father*, baby 1859.0 0.048 -0.201 0.330 0.382
CULTURE 2510.5 0.437 0.078 0.153 0.131
LIFESTYLE 2830.0 0.035 0.216 4.308 3,673
Home ome, house, room, bed 1727.0 0.010 -0.258 0.112 0.180
Work work, school, working, class 2754.5 0.073 0.183 2,860 2.438
PHYSICAL 2187.0 0.555 -0.061 1,680 1,780
Food food*, drink*, eat, dinner* 1728.0 0.011 -0.258 0.144 0.238
Allure have, like, out, know 1628.5 0.003 -0.300 6,598 7.175
PERCEPTION 2135.5 0.420 -0.083 7.574 7,784
< Back to article

We care about your privacy

We use cookies or similar technologies to access personal data, including page visits and your IP address. We use this information about you, your devices and your online interactions with us to provide, analyse and improve our services. This may include personalising content or advertising for you. You can find out more in our privacy policy and cookie policy and manage the choices available to you at any time by going to ‘Privacy settings’ at the bottom of any page.

Manage My Preferences

You have control over your personal data. For more detailed information about your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

Third-party advertising and social media cookies are used to
(1) deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests;
(2) limit the number of times you see an advertisement;
(3) help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign; and
(4) understand people’s behavior after they view an advertisement.
They remember that you have visited a site and quite often they will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit.