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: Received: 18 October 2023 / Approved: 19 October 2023 / Online: 20 October 2023 (03:13:55 CEST)
How to cite:
Sumedrea, A.G.; Sumedrea, C.M.; Minescu, I. Major Recurrent Depression in Middle-Aged Adults: Symptoms and Life Themes in a Latent Semantic Indexing Approach. Preprints2023, 2023101111. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1111.v1
Sumedrea, A.G.; Sumedrea, C.M.; Minescu, I. Major Recurrent Depression in Middle-Aged Adults: Symptoms and Life Themes in a Latent Semantic Indexing Approach. Preprints 2023, 2023101111. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1111.v1
Sumedrea, A.G.; Sumedrea, C.M.; Minescu, I. Major Recurrent Depression in Middle-Aged Adults: Symptoms and Life Themes in a Latent Semantic Indexing Approach. Preprints2023, 2023101111. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1111.v1
APA Style
Sumedrea, A.G., Sumedrea, C.M., & Minescu, I. (2023). Major Recurrent Depression in Middle-Aged Adults: Symptoms and Life Themes in a Latent Semantic Indexing Approach. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1111.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Sumedrea, A.G., Cristian Mihai Sumedrea and Irina Minescu. 2023 "Major Recurrent Depression in Middle-Aged Adults: Symptoms and Life Themes in a Latent Semantic Indexing Approach" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.1111.v1
Abstract
The work analyses the way in which symptoms and life themes manifest in middle-aged adults diagnosed with major recurrent depression. Specifically, the relationships between symptoms, life themes, and life themes - symptoms have been analyzed. For this purpose, Spearman correlation, and the methods of Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) were used. Seven symptoms and twenty-six life themes were identified in the patients analyzed as well as similarities of symptoms/life themes (at patient level), the ranking of the importance of symptoms on each life theme (at the level of the group of patients), the rankings of the similarities of life themes in relation to different symptoms or various groups of symptoms (at the level of the group of patients), and dysfunctional cycles of symptoms and life themes (at patient level). The findings only refer to the patients analyzed. Although our findings cannot be generalized, there is a possibility that some of them may also be encountered in other patients. However, the design of the work can be used to initiate other similar studies.
Keywords
cosine similarity; cosine disimilarity; life themes; major recurrent depression; symptoms
Subject
Social Sciences, Psychology
Copyright:
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