Personality adjectives in the digital world: A natural language processing study of Big Five adjectives and their usage on Reddit

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Research in Personality Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI:10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104634

Iva Vukojević , Irina Masnikosa , Matej Gjurković , Nina Drobac , Ana Butković , Martina Lozić , Denis Bratko , Jan Šnajder

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Abstract

Psycholexical studies explore the intricate interplay between language and personality traits, focusing on trait representation in language. One aspect of such representation is the frequency of personality adjective usage. This study examines how linguistic and trait-label properties of personality adjectives relate to their usage frequency. Utilizing a corpus from the social media platform Reddit, we employ natural language processing to analyze Big Five adjectives in person-descriptions. Our results show that trait-label properties exhibit different patterns when considered together rather than separately from linguistic properties—for instance, prefixal composition nullifies the expected effect of polarity on frequency. These findings highlight the importance of considering both linguistic and trait-label properties when assessing the usage of personality adjectives.

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数字世界中的人格形容词：对五大形容词及其在Reddit上使用的自然语言处理研究

心理研究主要探讨语言和人格特质之间错综复杂的相互作用，重点研究语言中的特质表征。这种表征的一个方面是人格形容词的使用频率。本研究探讨了人格形容词的语言特征和特征标签特征与其使用频率的关系。利用社交媒体平台Reddit的语料库，我们使用自然语言处理来分析人物描述中的五大形容词。我们的研究结果表明，当将特征标签属性放在一起而不是与语言属性分开考虑时，特征标签属性表现出不同的模式——例如，前缀组成抵消了极性对频率的预期影响。这些发现强调了在评估人格形容词的使用时同时考虑语言和特征标签属性的重要性。

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Journal of Research in Personality PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

5.40

自引率

6.10%

发文量

102

审稿时长

67 days

期刊介绍： Emphasizing experimental and descriptive research, the Journal of Research in Personality presents articles that examine important issues in the field of personality and in related fields basic to the understanding of personality. The subject matter includes treatments of genetic, physiological, motivational, learning, perceptual, cognitive, and social processes of both normal and abnormal kinds in human and animal subjects. Features: • Papers that present integrated sets of studies that address significant theoretical issues relating to personality. • Theoretical papers and critical reviews of current experimental and methodological interest. • Single, well-designed studies of an innovative nature. • Brief reports, including replication or null result studies of previously reported findings, or a well-designed studies addressing questions of limited scope.