Using structural topic modeling to understand ethnicity-related narratives

IF 5 1区 心理学 Q1 Psychology
Rachel Jacobson, Dulce Wilkinson Westberg, Edward Chou, Moin Syed, Sara J. Weston
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Abstract

Objective

Narrative identity is a promising approach for understanding the content of individuals' ethnic identities but can be limited by the time-intensive nature of human coding and the reliance on preestablished coding systems.

Background

The aim of our preregistered study is to elucidate the content of individuals' ethnicity-related experiences using a novel statistical approach.

Method

We applied structural topic modeling (STM), a natural language processing tool, to narratives written by an ethnically diverse sample of 1149 young adults about a moment they felt aware of their ethnicity.

Results

We identified 14 topics within ethnicity narratives and analyzed how each topic related to both the participant's ethnicity and the human-coded themes of agency and communion. For example, the topic Gained perspective of structural inequality was associated with greater agency, whereas Peer dynamics was associated with greater communion. Ethnic/cultural celebration was associated with both.

Conclusions

This study introduces STM as a useful tool for extracting topic content in narrative data and demonstrates how the multi-method assessment of ethnicity narratives provides greater insight into the content of ethnic experiences. These findings contribute to our understanding of contextualized aspects of personality, including the innovative ways we might examine them.

利用结构主题模型理解与种族有关的叙述。
目的:叙事身份认同是一种很有前途的了解个人民族身份内容的方法,但可能会受到人类编码的时间密集性和对预设编码系统的依赖性的限制:叙述性身份认同是了解个人种族身份内容的一种有前途的方法,但可能会受到人为编码的时间密集性和对预先建立的编码系统的依赖性的限制:背景:我们预先注册的研究旨在使用一种新颖的统计方法来阐明个人民族相关经历的内容:方法:我们将结构主题建模(STM)这一自然语言处理工具应用于由1149名年轻成年人组成的种族多元化样本所撰写的关于他们意识到自己种族的某一时刻的叙述:结果:我们在种族叙事中确定了 14 个主题,并分析了每个主题与参与者的种族以及人类编码的 "代理 "和 "共融 "主题之间的关系。例如,"获得结构性不平等的视角 "这一主题与更大的能动性相关,而 "同伴动态 "则与更大的共融性相关。种族/文化庆祝活动与这两个主题都有关联:本研究将 STM 介绍为从叙事数据中提取主题内容的有用工具,并展示了对种族叙事进行多方法评估如何更深入地了解种族经历的内容。这些发现有助于我们理解人格的情境化方面,包括我们可能对其进行研究的创新方法。
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Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-
CiteScore
9.60
自引率
6.00%
发文量
100
期刊介绍: Journal of Personality publishes scientific investigations in the field of personality. It focuses particularly on personality and behavior dynamics, personality development, and individual differences in the cognitive, affective, and interpersonal domains. The journal reflects and stimulates interest in the growth of new theoretical and methodological approaches in personality psychology.
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