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P-1418 - Looking for Suicidal Traits in Marilyn Monroe's “fragments”. a Liwc Analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2020
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The aim of this work was to analyze Marilyn Monroe's “Fragments” using a computerized method for text analysis: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). This software has been used in recent years to examine suicide notes, letters and poems in order to characterize the quantitative linguistic features of suicidal texts. Selected texts were grouped into four periods of similar word count and then processed with LIWC. Kruskal-Wallis Test was applied for comparison of means between periods and for each of the 80 LIWC output scores. Significant differences (p < 0.05) were found in only five categories: use of pronouns, use of words longer than six letters, use of the third person of plural, use of swear words and use of expressions related with religion.
Our results do not support the findings described in previous studies of writings of persons who committed suicide.
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