biostudies-literatureUnknown13Shen J<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>The results Frontiers in psychiatry1022036https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9691664biostudies-literatureEstablishment and psychometric characteristics of emotional words list for suicidal risk assessment in speech emotion recognition.PMC9691664Yin YWu JWu MShen JLi JDong XTong YZhang SLiu NHZhao LFu GWang XWang YfalseEstablishment and psychometric characteristics of emotional words list for suicidal risk assessment in speech emotion recognition.<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>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.<h4>Results</h4>The results 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z20222025-04-21T19:06:49.015Z2025-04-05T17:29:00.662ZS-EPMC96916643644040110.3389/fpsyt.2022.1022036