Syntactic complexity of written text as a structural linguistic marker of depressive symptoms
Features of syntactic complexity within written text could serve as linguistic markers of depression. However, features were weakly associated with depression and varied across writing tasks. Combining features of syntactic complexity with other established linguistic markers may add value to language analysis methods used to detect depression.
Authors
- George Van Doorn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7311-7099)
- Jacob Dye (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3469-2792)
- Taylor A. Braund (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8408-9070)
- Gabriel Tillman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9601-3660)
- Clara Khuon
- Bridianne O'Dea
Institutions
- Federation University (AU)
- Black Dog Institute (AU)
- Flinders University (AU)
- The George Institute for Global Health (AU)
- Australian Institute of Family Studies (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Published
- 2026-01-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2026.121199
- Primary Topic
- Mental Health via Writing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00