Establishment and psychometric characteristics of emotional words list for suicidal risk assessment in speech emotion recognition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emotional disturbance is an important risk factor of suicidal behaviors. To ensure speech emotion recognition (SER), a novel technique to evaluate emotional characteristics of speech, precision in labeling emotional words is a prerequisite. Currently, a list of suicide-related emotional word is absent. The aims of this study were to establish an Emotional Words List for Suicidal Risk Assessment (EWLSRA) and test the reliability and validity of the list in a suicide-related SER task.

Methods

Suicide-related emotion words were nominated and discussed by 10 suicide prevention professionals. Sixty-five tape-recordings of calls to a large psychological support hotline in China were selected to test psychometric characteristics of the EWLSRA.

Results

The results

SUBMITTER: Shen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9691664 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature