Personality and Text: Quantitative Psycholinguistic Analysis of a Stylistically Differentiated Czech Text
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Personality and Text: Quantitative Psycholinguistic Analysis of a Stylistically Differentiated Czech Text Dalibor Kucˇera1
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Jirˇ´ı Haviger2 • Jana M. Havigerova´3
Received: 3 June 2019 / Accepted: 3 March 2020 National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) India 2020
Abstract The paper focuses on the possibilities of quantitative linguistic method application in the context of psychological disciplines, especially psychodiagnostics. It presents the theoretical basis for this approach, as well as documentation and selected results of the Quantitative Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Formal Parameters of the Text (QPA-FPT) research. The research sample consisted of 76 undergraduates who wrote two types of texts according to in advance given criteria, a stylistically formal text (apology letter) and a stylistically informal text (letter from holiday). Besides, results of psychodiagnostic tests (STAI-X, KS: AT, SSI and PSSI) were collected. During data analysis, all the texts were computationally processed and described by the means of 48 linguistic characteristics (parameters of text). The outcomes of the analysis were then compared with the test results, and significant correlations were identified. The research results include a number of key findings, pointing out the influence of a given text type on its morphological structure, but also the potential links among linguistic features (i.e. text parameters) and specific personality characteristics of the writer, e.g. between the quantity of verbs, emotional skills and the
& Dalibor Kucˇera [email protected] 1
Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of South Bohemia, KPE PF JU, Dukelska´ 245/9, 37001 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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Department of Informatics and Quantitative Methods, University of Hradec Kra´love´, Hradec Kra´love´, Czech Republic
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Institute of Psychology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
overall score in the SSI test, and between incidence of punctuation and the PSSI test scale distrustful—paranoid. Keywords Psycholinguistics Text Personality Quantitative Analysis
Introduction A number of academic fields as well as a number of scholars focus on analysis of human communication and search for contexts that affect it. As a result of the dynamic development of the Internet, increase in the computing capacity and the obvious commercial potential related to evaluation of communication, this area is no longer solely the domain of the scientific community, but has become crucial of interest also for security forces staff and for large commercial entities. Social media such as Facebook, Twitter and various blogs constantly absorb a considerable amount of news and information in an easily accessible data format that can be further utilized. Through the automated speech to text conversion, even acoustic speech as a type of material becomes easily cumulated and computationally processable. The application of the results of data processing is manifold—from tracking of consumer behaviour, political opinions, personal
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