Automatic personality assessment through social media language.
| Autor: | Park G; Department of Psychology., Schwartz HA; Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania., Eichstaedt JC; Department of Psychology., Kern ML; Department of Psychology., Kosinski M; Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge., Stillwell DJ; Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge., Ungar LH; Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania., Seligman ME; Department of Psychology. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Journal of personality and social psychology [J Pers Soc Psychol] 2015 Jun; Vol. 108 (6), pp. 934-52. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Nov 03. |
| DOI: | 10.1037/pspp0000020 |
| Abstrakt: | Language use is a psychologically rich, stable individual difference with well-established correlations to personality. We describe a method for assessing personality using an open-vocabulary analysis of language from social media. We compiled the written language from 66,732 Facebook users and their questionnaire-based self-reported Big Five personality traits, and then we built a predictive model of personality based on their language. We used this model to predict the 5 personality factors in a separate sample of 4,824 Facebook users, examining (a) convergence with self-reports of personality at the domain- and facet-level; (b) discriminant validity between predictions of distinct traits; (c) agreement with informant reports of personality; (d) patterns of correlations with external criteria (e.g., number of friends, political attitudes, impulsiveness); and (e) test-retest reliability over 6-month intervals. Results indicated that language-based assessments can constitute valid personality measures: they agreed with self-reports and informant reports of personality, added incremental validity over informant reports, adequately discriminated between traits, exhibited patterns of correlations with external criteria similar to those found with self-reported personality, and were stable over 6-month intervals. Analysis of predictive language can provide rich portraits of the mental life associated with traits. This approach can complement and extend traditional methods, providing researchers with an additional measure that can quickly and cheaply assess large groups of participants with minimal burden. ((c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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