Table 1
Lexical statistics for the three groups of adolescents.
| Group | Words | Lemmas |
|---|---|---|
| Non-depressed adolescents attending school | 24,721 | 2,023 |
| Depressed adolescents attending school | 23,990 | 1,969 |
| Depressed adolescents in hospital | 14,061 | 1,584 |
| Total | 62,772 | 3,490* |
[i] *This is not the total sum of the lemmas but the total sum of different lemmas in the corpus; a lemma in one class can also be found in another, which is why it is not a case of simple addition.
Figure 1
Correspondence analysis on vocabulary. H = Life narratives of hospitalized adolescents; DS = Life narratives of depressed adolescents attending school; S = Life narratives of non-depressed adolescents attending school.
Table 2
Specificity of lemmas by group.
| Hospitalized | σ | Depressed at school | σ | Non-depressed at school | σ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| to feel | 5.3 | finally | 6.6 | we | 8.3 |
| daddy | 4.3 | here | 7.1 | experience | 4.4 |
| because | 4.2 | so | 5.7 | parent | 3.9 |
| depression | 4.1 | study | 4.2 | to meet | 3.7 |
| illness | 3.5 | technical | 2.7 | sport | 3.6 |
| me | 3.3 | now | 3.4 | to travel | 2.9 |
| anxiety | 3 | father | 2.6 | to go on | 2.9 |
| house | 3 | brother | 2.5 | hobby | 2.7 |
| I | 3 | alcoholic | 2.4 | activity | 2.7 |
Figure 2
Correspondence analysis of the co-occurrences in vocabulary as a function of psychopathology.