Medical Students' Self-Reflection of Stress Management: A Psycholinguistic Analysis
Table 2: Gender differences in morpho-syntactic indicators of the text: Mann-Whitney test (Nmen=48, Nwomen=97)
Independent Samples T-Test | Examples | W | Mr | r-bc | meannames | meanwomen |
Linguistics | 1451.0 | < .001 | -0.377 | 75,920 | 77,764 | |
Function words | the, that, and, I | 1661.5 | 0.005 | -0.286 | 62.903 | 64.108 |
Total pronouns | I, you, that, it | 1398.5 | < .001 | -0.399 | 11,479 | 12,846 |
1st person singular | I, me, we, myself | 1784.5 | 0.023 | -0.233 | 8,780 | 9,820 |
3rd person plural | they, their, themsel* | 1789.0 | 0.024 | -0.232 | 0.503 | 0.658 |
Determiners | the, at, that, we | 3055.5 | 0.002 | 0.313 | 15.531 | 14,751 |
Numbers | one, two, first, once | 2967.5 | 0.007 | 0.275 | 1.141 | 0.927 |
Negations | not, well, believe, nothing | 1573.0 | 0.002 | -0.324 | 1,816 | 2.151 |