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Background:

  • Communal coping, where partners view problems as shared (
  • ours
  • instead of individual concerns, is linked to health and treatment success.
  • Linguistic markers, specifically pronoun use, can indicate communal coping strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if first-person plural (
  • we-talk
  • ) and singular (
  • I-talk
  • ) pronouns predict treatment outcomes in couples with alcohol use disorder.
  • To explore pronoun use as a linguistic marker of communal coping and its association with treatment success.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of pronoun use (we-talk and I-talk) from speech transcripts of 33 couples undergoing couple-focused alcohol interventions.
  • Computerized text analysis of speech from pretreatment interactions and therapy sessions.
  • Correlating pronoun use during intervention with successful (abstinence) or unsuccessful (heavy drinking) treatment outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Spouse
  • we-talk
  • during intervention, controlling for pretreatment levels, significantly predicted successful treatment outcomes.
  • Both patient and spouse
  • I-talk
  • during intervention, controlling for pretreatment levels, predicted unsuccessful outcomes.
  • Distinguishing between active (
  • I
  • ) and passive (
  • me/my
  • ) forms of
  • I-talk
  • further clarified its association with negative outcomes.

Conclusions:

  • Spouse's communal orientation, indicated by
  • we-talk
  • , is a significant predictor of patient health outcomes in couple-focused interventions.
  • Pronoun use serves as a valid linguistic marker for communal coping, potentially acting as a mechanism for change in interventions for various health problems.
  • Individualistic language (
  • I-talk
  • ) is associated with poorer treatment outcomes, emphasizing the importance of a shared approach to problem-solving.