ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Psychologically Distressed Youth Create Happy Stories: Estimation of Psychological Distress in Japanese Youth By Stylometric and Sentiment Analyses of Imaginative Writing
- Masae Manabe
Nara Institute of Science and Technology - Kongmeng Liew
Nara Institute of Science and Technology - Shuntaro Yada
Nara Institute of Science and Technology - Shoko Wakamiya
Nara Institute of Science and Technology - Eiji Aramaki
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Abstract
To measure the levels of psychological distress in Japanese youth, we asked participants to write imaginary narratives, and analyzed them following several linguistic indexes. Results showed that the youths with higher psychological distress wrote narratives with more positive (happiness-related) words than the lower psychological distress group.
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