Lexical Profile of Emotional Disclosure in Socially Shared Versus Written Narratives

Balon, Séverine; Rimé, Bernard

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“…First, it could be possible that oral narratives are in general more coherent than written narratives. However, most of the evidence that compares narratives on structural variables is overall rather mixed ( Tannen, 1982 ; Chafe and Tannen, 1987 ; Eaton, 2005 ; Özyildirim, 2009 ; Balon and Rimé, 2016 ; Drijbooms et al, 2017 ). Given our research design, it is hard to interpret our findings as evidence for this hypothesis.…”

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An Investigation of the Coherence of Oral Narratives: Associations With Mental Health, Social Support and the Coherence of Written Narratives

2021

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Research QuestionsIn a first research question, we examined whether the relations that are generally observed between the coherence of written autobiographical narratives and outcomes of mental health and social support, can be replicated for the coherence of oral narratives. Second, we studied whether the coherence of oral narratives is related to the coherence of written narratives.MethodsPearson correlations and t-tests were calculated on data of two separate studies to examine the research questions.ResultsFirst, only thematic coherence of oral narratives was significantly, although moderately, negatively associated to symptoms of depression, anxiety and negative social interactions. Second, the coherence of oral narratives was higher than the coherence of written narratives. Only the thematic coherence of oral narratives was positively associated with thematic and total coherence of written narratives. Furthermore, correlations between written and oral narratives were stronger for negative narratives as compared to positive narratives.DiscussionThe ability to elaborate emotionally and make meaning out of important life events in oral narratives is, to a certain extent, related to better mental health and more social support. Furthermore, thematic coherence may be a relatively stable feature of individuals’ narrative styles that is reflected in narratives of different modalities. Nonetheless, these topics need to be further researched to overcome present limitations.

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An Investigation of the Coherence of Oral Narratives: Associations With Mental Health, Social Support and the Coherence of Written Narratives

2021

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“…In this respect, OSN content is a valuable source of data for analyzing such reactions. As pointed out by Balon and Rime (2016), people consistently tend to use more emotional wording when writing messages as compared to the direct (face-toface) sharing of emotional experiences. As a possible explanation to this finding, Balon & Rime (Balon and Rime 2016) refer to non-verbal emotional expressions such as one's body language, vocal tone, and facial expressions that a person elicits when communicating face-to-face, while in textual messages written cues (textual expressions, smileys) are primary emotion carriers.…”

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An analysis of emotion-exchange motifs in multiplex networks during emergency events

Kušen

Strembeck

2019

Appl Netw Sci

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In this paper, we present an analysis of the emotion-exchange patterns that arise from Twitter messages sent during emergency events. To this end, we performed a systematic structural analysis of the multiplex communication network that we derived from a data-set including more than 1.9 million tweets that have been sent during five recent shootings and terror events. In order to study the local communication structures that emerge as Twitter users directly exchange emotional messages, we propose the concept of emotion-exchange motifs. Our findings suggest that emotion-exchange motifs which contain reciprocal edges (indicating online conversations) only emerge when users exchange messages that convey anger or fear, either in isolation or in any combination with another emotion. In contrast, the expression of sadness, disgust, surprise, as well as any positive emotion are rather characteristic for emotion-exchange motifs representing one-way communication patterns (instead of online conversations). Among other things, we also found that a higher structural similarity exists between pairs of network layers consisting of one high-arousal emotion and one low-arousal emotion, rather than pairs of network layers belonging to the same arousal dimension.

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“…These final verbal communications—though differing in the communication context from executed prisoners' spoken last words (e.g., oral vs. written; public vs. private; cf. Balon and Rimé, 2016 ), contained a large degree of positive affect, similar to inmates' final statements, which seemed to increase in positivity as they approached death.…”

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A Focused Review of Language Use Preceding Death by Execution

Hirschmüller

Egloff

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Executions are one form of death that can be assumed to be maximally anxiety provoking. Words spoken by death row inmates moments before their execution can provide valuable insights into people's end-of-life communication needs and themes, conveying what individuals choose to express to others in the face of imminent death. In this focused review, we describe findings from quantitative and qualitative text analysis studies that have analyzed affective experiences and meaning-making attempts in transcriptions of actual statements made by Texas death row inmates. Overall, the most prevalent content themes identified in these final acts of verbal communication in the reviewed studies consisted of a strong predominance of emotional positivity, messages to relevant social others, and spiritual references. We subsequently view the reviewed findings in the light of additional research in which people's conceptions of death and dying were explored and language studies in which people's communication before other forms of death was analyzed. Finally, we describe open questions and directions for future analyses of death row inmates' final statements, and we outline practical implications.

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Lexical Profile of Emotional Disclosure in Socially Shared Versus Written Narratives

Cited by 30 publications

References 53 publications

An Investigation of the Coherence of Oral Narratives: Associations With Mental Health, Social Support and the Coherence of Written Narratives

An Investigation of the Coherence of Oral Narratives: Associations With Mental Health, Social Support and the Coherence of Written Narratives

An analysis of emotion-exchange motifs in multiplex networks during emergency events

A Focused Review of Language Use Preceding Death by Execution

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