Flattening the curve: COVID-19 induced a decrease in arousal for positive and an increase in arousal for negative words

IF 2.4 2区文学 Q1 LINGUISTICS

Applied Psycholinguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-19 DOI:10.1017/s0142716423000425

Milica Popović Stijačić, Ksenija Mišić, Dušica Filipović Đurđević

{"title":"Flattening the curve: COVID-19 induced a decrease in arousal for positive and an increase in arousal for negative words","authors":"Milica Popović Stijačić, Ksenija Mišić, Dušica Filipović Đurđević","doi":"10.1017/s0142716423000425","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this study, we compared affective ratings of emotional valence and arousal for 882 Serbian words at three points in time: before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2018), during the COVID-19 lockdown (2020), and after the government measures were abandoned (2022). We did not observe a significant change in average valence or arousal ratings across time points. A more detailed look into the data revealed the change in arousal that was different across the valence values. An increase in their linear correlations and a decrease in the nonlinearity of the GAMM smooth demonstrated that, upon the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, emotionally negative words elicited higher arousal ratings, whereas emotionally positive words elicited lower arousal ratings. It revealed that our participants became more sensitive to the negative content and less sensitive to the positive content. Our results add to the findings, which showed that the relationship between emotional valence and arousal is a function of contextual factors, which primarily influence the arousal of words.","PeriodicalId":48065,"journal":{"name":"Applied Psycholinguistics","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Applied Psycholinguistics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0142716423000425","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Abstract In this study, we compared affective ratings of emotional valence and arousal for 882 Serbian words at three points in time: before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2018), during the COVID-19 lockdown (2020), and after the government measures were abandoned (2022). We did not observe a significant change in average valence or arousal ratings across time points. A more detailed look into the data revealed the change in arousal that was different across the valence values. An increase in their linear correlations and a decrease in the nonlinearity of the GAMM smooth demonstrated that, upon the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, emotionally negative words elicited higher arousal ratings, whereas emotionally positive words elicited lower arousal ratings. It revealed that our participants became more sensitive to the negative content and less sensitive to the positive content. Our results add to the findings, which showed that the relationship between emotional valence and arousal is a function of contextual factors, which primarily influence the arousal of words.

查看原文本刊更多论文

曲线趋平:COVID-19导致对积极词汇的兴奋减少，对消极词汇的兴奋增加

在本研究中，我们比较了882个塞尔维亚语单词在三个时间点的情绪效价和唤醒的情感评分:在COVID-19大流行开始之前(2018年)，在COVID-19封锁期间(2020年)和在政府措施被放弃之后(2022年)。我们没有观察到在不同时间点上的平均价或唤醒评分有显著的变化。对数据的更详细的研究揭示了在不同的效价值中唤醒的变化。线性相关性的增加和GAMM平滑非线性的降低表明，在COVID-19大流行开始时，情绪消极词汇引起的唤醒评级更高，而情绪积极词汇引起的唤醒评级较低。结果显示，我们的参与者对消极内容变得更加敏感，而对积极内容变得不那么敏感。我们的研究结果进一步说明，情绪效价和唤起之间的关系是语境因素的作用，而语境因素主要影响词语的唤起。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Applied Psycholinguistics Multiple-

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

4.80%

发文量

期刊介绍： Applied Psycholinguistics publishes original research papers on the psychological processes involved in language. It examines language development , language use and language disorders in adults and children with a particular emphasis on cross-language studies. The journal gathers together the best work from a variety of disciplines including linguistics, psychology, reading, education, language learning, speech and hearing, and neurology. In addition to research reports, theoretical reviews will be considered for publication as will keynote articles and commentaries.