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- Title
The Connection between Pronouns and Distorted Thinking: Depressed Selves in an Online Depression Community.
- Authors
Yating Chen; Lee, Charity; Pei Soo Ang
- Abstract
Limited studies have investigated the presence of cognitive distortion and emotional disturbance in online depression narratives. Additionally, the intricate relationships between the expression of depressive emotions, the construction of the depressed self and the manifestation of cognitive thinking lack an intuitively perceived connection. This study explores the affective cognition of a group of young individuals who shared their depressive emotions on the 'Zoufan' Weibo page. A set of 2000 comments was selected and coded, which revealed a prevalence of negative emotions within the community. Pronouns, a pivotal discursive resource and a cue for studying identity work, were further mapped with the top 10 negative emotions. Exploratory analyses revealed the four most salient distorted thinking patterns: self-isolating thinking, self-blaming thinking, absolutist thinking, and catastrophic thinking. The implication of this study lies in assisting both the public and Internet users in recognizing pronouns as nuanced emotional and cognitive cues of online depression narratives.
- Subjects
IDENTITY (Psychology); PRONOUNS (Grammar); VIRTUAL communities; EMOTIONS; INTERNET users; AFFECT (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Modern Languages, 2024, Vol 34, Issue 1, p32
- ISSN
1675-526X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22452/jml.vol34no1.3