Association of Socio-Emotional Factors: Religious Affiliation,

Depression to Suicidal tendency among Adolescent girls

Suman Rachapudi and Sesha Sai
Spears School of Business , Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078
Introduction
Suicidal tendency among the adolescent girls is
one of the biggest challenges for the present
day society [1]. The main goal of this project is
to find the association of the various socioemotional factors to suicidal tendencies among
adolescent girls in United States. The data was
collected from the National Longitudinal Study
of Adolescent Health, to explore social behavior
among adolescents. Models built via multiple
regressions are used to find the association
between depression, religious affiliation and
suicidal tendency. ANOVA and Chi-Square tests
are conducted to confirm the association of
Religious affiliation, depression to suicidal
tendency.

Gouge has got strong association with the word Weld. Weld
is a defect that occurs when the material is not welded
properly or is related to the issue of welding. Similarly, in
depth analysis can be performed to find out the root cause of
the defect.

Figure 1. EM Process flow

Figure 6. Concept Link Tensile

Tensile: This defect is usually called tensile failure. Tensile is

the capability of the material to stretch. Tensile failure has got
very strong association with the words heat, furnace, and
power outage. If the temperature in the furnace is not
constant, then the material will lose its tensile. When there is
a power outage, the furnace will not operate at a constant
temperature, thus causing reduction in the materials tensile.

Methodology
Analysis
SAS Enterprise
analyze the data.

Guide

5.1

was

used

to

Text Parsing
The Text Parsing node parses through the entire
data to identify unique terms (words) present in
the text data. To speed up the run time, some of
the parsed properties were set to NO, these
were: Detect Different Parts of Speech, Noun
Groups, and Find Entities. Based on the
properties set, only certain required key words
were identified. After the terms were identified,
a Term-By-Document matrix was created with
terms as rows and documents (comments) as
columns. Usually, a very sparse matrix will be
generated. To reduce the size of the term-bydocument matrix a Start list was used.
Text Filter
The Text Filter node assigns weight to the words
based on their respective frequencies. A built in
algorithm was used to filter all the unnecessary
words which have a lower weight. The algorithm
assigns more weight to the medium and low
frequency words because the documents can
easily be classified based on those words.
Check spelling was set to Yes. The default
English dictionary was customized as needed.
The cells of the term-by-document matrix
contain the frequency of the term in that
particular document. SAS default weighting was
used to calculate frequency for terms.
Text Topic
The Text Topic node extracts topics. Topics are
groups
of
terms
that
summarize
a
representation of document collection. Multiterm topics were used, and after some
research, the number of multi-term topics was
set to 10. The node assigns document cutoff
to each document and assigns term cutoff to
each topic, and, based on the threshold value, it
will check whether the association between the
terms in the topic was strong enough or not.
Text Cluster
The Text Cluster node assigns the document to
only one cluster whereas Text Topic node
assigns the document to zero or more topics.
Single Value Decomposition was used to

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Figure 2. Result of Text Parsing Node

Zipf Plot

Zipf Plot: Zipfs law assigns ranks to the words based on

its frequency. It states that the frequency of the word is
inversely proportional to the rank.
Figure 7. Result of Text Topic Node
Topics
together in Topic 3
appeared in the highest

Figure 3. Result of Text Filter Node

Terms Table

Concept Links:
The concept link diagram shows the association or
relationship of a particular word with the other words.

The words
number
of documents, i.e., 16,093 documents, followed by words of
Topic 2, which appeared in 12,132 documents. The words
cut, yield, length, id, and mark define the theme of
Topic 3. All the materials that were assigned to Topic 3 have
the following defects: cut issues, desired length not met,
marks on the surfaces, and inner diameter under tolerances.
Similarly, the words reject, gouge, cut, weld, and UT
define the theme of Topic 2. The materials in Topic 2 were
getting rejected because of the following defects: Gouges,
welding issues, and under tolerances. The conclusion is most
of the comments were assigned to Topics 2, 3, and 10. Most of
the materials in Plant 30 have the defects that were present
in Topics 2, 3, and 10.

Figure 8. Results of Text Cluster Node

Figure 4. Concept Link Reject

The above concept link shows the most frequent words

that occur with the word Reject and the strength of
association between them, and they are: Pinholes, UT
(Under Tolerance), Dents, Transverse scratches, and
Gouges
The conclusion is that most of the materials were getting
rejected due to the above defects. Through a more in
depth examination of patterns in the associations,
questions can be answered, such as, Why are Gouges
occurring?

Figure 5. Concept Link Gouge

The Text Cluster node discovered six major themes, and each
document (comment) got assigned to one of the themes. 36%
of the comments were assigned to Cluster 1, but Cluster 1
does not have any descriptive terms and has no theme. This
has happened because all those comments in cluster 1 do not
contain any of the words that are present in the Start list. This
can be improved by removing some of the comments.

Figure 9. Results of Text Cluster Node after

removing some comments

55% of the comments were assigned to Cluster 1 & 2. The

materials that fall in Cluster 1 have the following defects: bad
coil, light wall, scratches, and under tolerances, whereas
Cluster 2 has the following defects: Welding issues, crooked
materials, dents, and gouges. The conclusion is most of the
materials in Plant 30 have the above mentioned defects.