How do topics and emotions develop in elementary school children? A text mining perspective based on free-writing text over 6 years
Free-text data with long duration and continuity have great potential for studying environmental concerns and emotional expressions in child development. Based on ecosystem theory, using topic modeling and sentiment analysis in text mining to mine 4556 free-text writing data from first to sixth grad...
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| author | Mengjun Liu Xinyu Jiang Bingbing Zhang Ting Song Gang Yu Guofang Liu Nan Jiang Di Wu Zhi Zhou |
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| description | Free-text data with long duration and continuity have great potential for studying environmental concerns and emotional expressions in child development. Based on ecosystem theory, using topic modeling and sentiment analysis in text mining to mine 4556 free-text writing data from first to sixth grade in elementary school, this study aims to reveal concerned topics’ evolutionary trends and sentiment expression differences in topics during elementary school children’s development. The results show the following: (1) Children prefer to focus on the topics of school and family in elementary school; (2) With the growth of grades, the proportion of family topics continues to decline, while that of social culture topics keeps rising; (3) When describing school, family, social culture, and interest, children mostly express negative emotions, and when describing peers and ability they mostly express positive emotions; (4) As the grade increases, the emotional expression on social culture topics become negative, while that on ability and interest topics become positive, and there are more differences in emotion expression between topics in junior and senior elementary grades. Discussion and conclusion are discussed at the end. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dfcc2f2b4df84d4abb3896d7988ddf482023-03-02T07:02:30ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-03-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.11091261109126How do topics and emotions develop in elementary school children? A text mining perspective based on free-writing text over 6 yearsMengjun Liu0Xinyu Jiang1Bingbing Zhang2Ting Song3Gang Yu4Guofang Liu5Nan Jiang6Di Wu7Zhi Zhou8School of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, ChinaSchool of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, ChinaSchool of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, ChinaSchool of Foreign Languages, Hubei University, Wuhan, ChinaNo. 1 Middle School of Xiaochi Town, Huanggang, ChinaNo. 1 Middle School of Xiaochi Town, Huanggang, ChinaSchool of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, ChinaSchool of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, ChinaChina Unicom Hubei Branch, Wuhan, ChinaFree-text data with long duration and continuity have great potential for studying environmental concerns and emotional expressions in child development. Based on ecosystem theory, using topic modeling and sentiment analysis in text mining to mine 4556 free-text writing data from first to sixth grade in elementary school, this study aims to reveal concerned topics’ evolutionary trends and sentiment expression differences in topics during elementary school children’s development. The results show the following: (1) Children prefer to focus on the topics of school and family in elementary school; (2) With the growth of grades, the proportion of family topics continues to decline, while that of social culture topics keeps rising; (3) When describing school, family, social culture, and interest, children mostly express negative emotions, and when describing peers and ability they mostly express positive emotions; (4) As the grade increases, the emotional expression on social culture topics become negative, while that on ability and interest topics become positive, and there are more differences in emotion expression between topics in junior and senior elementary grades. Discussion and conclusion are discussed at the end.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1109126/fullchildren developmenttext miningtopic modelingsentiment analysisecological systems theory |
| spellingShingle | Mengjun Liu Xinyu Jiang Bingbing Zhang Ting Song Gang Yu Guofang Liu Nan Jiang Di Wu Zhi Zhou How do topics and emotions develop in elementary school children? A text mining perspective based on free-writing text over 6 years Frontiers in Psychology children development text mining topic modeling sentiment analysis ecological systems theory |
| title | How do topics and emotions develop in elementary school children? A text mining perspective based on free-writing text over 6 years |
| title_full | How do topics and emotions develop in elementary school children? A text mining perspective based on free-writing text over 6 years |
| title_fullStr | How do topics and emotions develop in elementary school children? A text mining perspective based on free-writing text over 6 years |
| title_full_unstemmed | How do topics and emotions develop in elementary school children? A text mining perspective based on free-writing text over 6 years |
| title_short | How do topics and emotions develop in elementary school children? A text mining perspective based on free-writing text over 6 years |
| title_sort | how do topics and emotions develop in elementary school children a text mining perspective based on free writing text over 6 years |
| topic | children development text mining topic modeling sentiment analysis ecological systems theory |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1109126/full |
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