Jakovljev, I. and Milin, P. orcid.org/0000-0001-9708-7031 (2017) The relationship between thematic, lexical, and syntactic features of written texts and personality traits. Psihologija, 50 (1). pp. 67-84. ISSN 0048-5705
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 by the Serbian Psychological Association. Article open access under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) |
Keywords: | linguistic behaviour; personality traits; principal component analysis; canonical correlation analysis |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Journalism Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2016 12:15 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2017 05:52 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI161012006J |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Drustvo Psihologa Srbije |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.2298/PSI161012006J |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:107515 |