The relationship between thematic, lexical, and syntactic features of written texts and personality traits
The relationship between linguistic features of written texts and personality traits was investigated. Linguistic features used in this study were thematic (co-occurrence of the most frequent content words across participants), lexical (the maximum of new words) and syntactic (average sente...
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| description | The relationship between linguistic features of written texts and personality
traits was investigated. Linguistic features used in this study were thematic
(co-occurrence of the most frequent content words across participants),
lexical (the maximum of new words) and syntactic (average sentence length).
Personality traits were measured by VP+2 questionnaire standardized for
Serbian population. Research was conducted on text materials collected from
114 Serbian participants (age 15-65), in their native tongue. Results showed
that participants who gained low scores on Conscientiousness and high scores
on Neuroticism and Negative Valence wrote about repeated daily activities and
everyday life, but not about job-related matters or life perspective. Higher
scores on Aggressiveness and Negative Valence coincided with writing about
job-related matters and with the lower lexical richness. By showing that
thematic content of text materials is affected by personality traits, these
results support and expand previous findings regarding the relationship
between personality and linguistic behaviour. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 179033] |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bca62b987d4546668f9e448585bc6e372022-12-22T00:45:21ZengDrustvo Psihologa SrbijePsihologija0048-57051451-92832017-01-01501678410.2298/PSI161012006J0048-57051600006JThe relationship between thematic, lexical, and syntactic features of written texts and personality traitsJakovljev Ivana0Milin Petar1Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, Novi SadUniversity of Sheffield, Department of Journalism Studies, Sheffield, UKThe relationship between linguistic features of written texts and personality traits was investigated. Linguistic features used in this study were thematic (co-occurrence of the most frequent content words across participants), lexical (the maximum of new words) and syntactic (average sentence length). Personality traits were measured by VP+2 questionnaire standardized for Serbian population. Research was conducted on text materials collected from 114 Serbian participants (age 15-65), in their native tongue. Results showed that participants who gained low scores on Conscientiousness and high scores on Neuroticism and Negative Valence wrote about repeated daily activities and everyday life, but not about job-related matters or life perspective. Higher scores on Aggressiveness and Negative Valence coincided with writing about job-related matters and with the lower lexical richness. By showing that thematic content of text materials is affected by personality traits, these results support and expand previous findings regarding the relationship between personality and linguistic behaviour. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 179033]http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0048-5705/2017/0048-57051600006J.pdflinguistic behaviourpersonality traitsprincipal component analysiscanonical correlation analysis |
| spellingShingle | Jakovljev Ivana Milin Petar The relationship between thematic, lexical, and syntactic features of written texts and personality traits Psihologija linguistic behaviour personality traits principal component analysis canonical correlation analysis |
| title | The relationship between thematic, lexical, and syntactic features of written texts and personality traits |
| title_full | The relationship between thematic, lexical, and syntactic features of written texts and personality traits |
| title_fullStr | The relationship between thematic, lexical, and syntactic features of written texts and personality traits |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between thematic, lexical, and syntactic features of written texts and personality traits |
| title_short | The relationship between thematic, lexical, and syntactic features of written texts and personality traits |
| title_sort | relationship between thematic lexical and syntactic features of written texts and personality traits |
| topic | linguistic behaviour personality traits principal component analysis canonical correlation analysis |
| url | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0048-5705/2017/0048-57051600006J.pdf |
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