Temporal and computerized psycholinguistic analysis of the blog of a Chinese adolescent suicide

Crisis

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 168-175

  Li, Tim M H ^a   Chau, Michael ^b   Yip, Paul S F ^a   Wong, Paul W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Blogs; Chinese; Language use; Posting intensity; Suicidal process

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BLOGGING; CASE REPORT; CHINA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE; TIME FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; BLOGGING; CHINA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SUICIDE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84901987852     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: 21512396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000248     Document Type: Article

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