First-person pronouns as linguistic markers of depression among Brazilian youths.

Braz J Psychiatry · 2025 · PMC12815307 · PMID 40512870

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Self-reported depressive symptomatology correlated with I-pronoun use (rho = 0.366, p = 0.008), but did not reach statistical significance for clinician-rated symptoms (rho = 0.248, p = 0.076).

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