Cross-modal co-occurrence analysis of nonverbal behavior and content words, vocal emotion and prosody in individuals with subclinical depression.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most related research focuses on a single variable of verbal and nonverbal behaviors independently without considering their associations. Therefore, it is important to understand subclinical depression in the entire population.

Aims

This study investigated the cross-modal co-occurrence of nonverbal behavior with vocal emotions, prosody, and content words in individuals with subclinical depression.

Methods

A total of 70 participants assigned to the subclinical depression and control groups participated in structured interviews. Elan software was used to layer, transcribe, and annotate materials. A support vector machine was used to confirm the two models.

Results

Cross-modal co-occurrence analysis revealed that the subclinical depression group mainly

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11884204 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature