What Depression Feels Like
A Collostructional Analysis of Patient and Caregiver Perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21408024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elif Kara (0000-0002-7431-4059, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Englische Philologie , Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin , Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 249-282 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-2305 • E-ISSN: 2196-4726 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/zaa-2024-2027 |
| OpenAlex | W4404585016 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
The global burden of depression is rising, highlighting the urgency to gain a better understanding of the condition. As depression is known to cause interpersonal difficulties, this paper sets out to investigate emotion attribution in the context of depression, from two perspectives: depressed individuals, experiencing depression first-hand, and their social environment, experiencing depression second-hand. The specific questions addressed are (a) which emotions do the two groups typically attribute to themselves and others?, (b) how do the self -attributed emotions of the two groups differ?, and (c) what are distinguishing characteristics in the self - and other -attributions of the two groups? The analytical approach involves a family of quantitative corpus-linguistic methods known as collostructional analysis, which can be used to determine statistically significant associations between linguistic units in naturally occurring language. The methods are applied to natural language data obtained from online peer-support forums. The results show, broadly, that both groups are affected by negative emotions; specifically, depressed individuals’ emotional self -attributions characteristically involve feelings of inadequacy towards themselves, while self -attributions by caregivers characteristically involve feelings of detachment from their relationship with a depressed individual
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Constructions at Work
Covarying collexemes
The Critical Relationship Between Anxiety and Depression
The Extended Theoretical Model of Communal Coping
Syntactic Intrusions and The Notion of Grammatical Construction
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Depression, self-focused attention, and expectancies for positive and negative future life events for self and others
Emotion Talk Across Corpora
Extending collostructional analysis
Collostructions
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |