While there is extensive research on the adaptive grief styles developed by Doka and Martin, this study is the first of its kind to explore the language used among each style of grief. This study used clinical vignettes from a variety of sources on instrumental and intuitive grieving in an attempt to decipher the language use across various linguistic and psychological processes. Following this analysis, latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) was used fitting a two-topic model to analyze differences between topics while additionally performing a supervised LDA analysis. The strongest data from this study relate to intuitive grief, which found a higher use of present-tense language in comparison to the instrumental grief style. In addition, results found that the language used by intuitive grievers is slightly more distinguishable than that of its instrumental counterpart. Several implications for counseling and research were developed in response to these findings.

虽然多卡和马丁对适应性悲伤风格进行了广泛的研究，但这项研究是第一个探索每种悲伤风格所使用的语言的研究。这项研究使用了来自各种来源的关于工具性和直觉性悲伤的临床小插曲，试图破译各种语言和心理过程中的语言使用。在此分析之后，使用潜在狄利克雷分配 (LDA) 拟合双主题模型来分析主题之间的差异，同时另外执行监督 LDA 分析。这项研究中最有力的数据与直觉悲伤有关，与工具性悲伤风格相比，现在时语言的使用率更高。此外，结果发现，直觉型悲伤者使用的语言比工具型悲伤者使用的语言稍​​微更容易区分。针对这些发现，人们提出了对咨询和研究的一些启示。