Clinical Study
From Semantics to Feelings: How Do Individuals with Schizophrenia Rate the Emotional Valence of Words?
Table 2
Psycholinguistic properties of adjectives used in the experiment.
| | Psycholinguistic | Adjectives’ valence | | measure | Neutral (M ± SD) | Positive (M ± SD) | Negative (M SD) |
| | Kucera-Francis written frequency | 114.93141.98 | 96.92 ± 163.10 | 41.39 ± 51.42 | | Familiarity | 561.24 ± 44.44 | 568.88 ± 41.99 | 548.17 ± 41.24 | | Concreteness | 402.93 ± 51.94 | 342.05 ± 48.65 | 356.32 ± 49.45 | | Imageability | 426.40 ± 95.41 | 427.97 ± 53.26 | 427.14 ± 51.88 | | Word length (number of letters) | 4.92 ± 1.03 | 5.36 ± 1.16 | 5.32 ± 1.36 | | Word length (number of syllables) | 1.43 ± 0.50 | 1.51 ± 0.51 | 1.60 ± 0.49 |
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The range and direction of valence is 1 (extremely unpleasant) to 9 (extremely pleasant).
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