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The Use of Latent Semantic Analysis in the Positive Psychology: A Comparison with Twitter Posts
Giovanni PilatoSara SantilliLaura Notasubject
education.field_of_studyLatent Semantic Analysis Text Analysis methodology Courage Positive psychologyLatent semantic analysisComputer sciencemedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesPopulation050109 social psychologyContext (language use)02 engineering and technologyCouragePositive psychologyOrder (business)Latent Semantic Analysis0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering020201 artificial intelligence & image processing0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesPositive psychologyeducationPositive Youth DevelopmentSocial psychologyCouragemedia_commonText Analysis methodologydescription
In the last decade, the positive psychology and specifically the 'Positive Youth Development' (PYD) give efforts to positive aspect and strength that performance as protective factors of adjustment problems and psycho-social well-being, such as courage. To better understand the definition of courage in Italian context, 1199 participants were involved in the present study and we asked them to answer to the following question "Courage is...". The participant's definitions of courage were analyzed with the Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), in order to study the "fundamental concepts" arising from the population. An analogous comparison with Twitter posts has been also carried out.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 |