Clinical Depression

Margaret Lech

Publications

• Research Article
  Quantitative and Qualitative Insights into Emotional Interaction Patterns in Families with Clinically Depressed and Non-Depressed Adolescents
  Author(s): Melissa N Stolar, Margaret Lech, Lisa B Sheeber and Nicholas B AllenMelissa N Stolar, Margaret Lech, Lisa B Sheeber and Nicholas B Allen
  
  Emotional interactions between parents and their children are known to have a significant effect on the development and recurrence of clinical depression in children. While speech models used by existing conversation modeling algorithms can provide information about frequency of speech-silence states, the modeling process itself does not provide qualitative insights into the nature of the emotional process that underlies the speakers’ behavior. To address this issue, a recently proposed higher order emotional influence model (HOEIM) was applied to determine the extent to which “emotional influences” (interpreted as the values of the model coefficients) differed between families with depressed and non-depressed adolescents. The analysis was based on four speaker states: positive emotion, negative emotion, neutral emotion, and silence. The HOEIM estimated the condition.. Read More»
  

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