Computational psycholinguistic analysis and its application in psychological assessment of college students

• Main Authors: Kučera Dalibor, Havigerová Jana M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2015-06-01
• Series: Pedagogický Časopis
• Subjects: psycholinguistics; computational; analysis; assessment; psychodiagnostics; czech
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/jped-2015-0004

The paper deals with the issue of computational psycholinguistic analysis (CPA) and its experimental application in basic psychological and pedagogical assessment. CPA is a new method which may potentially provide interesting, psychologically relevant information about the author of a particular text, regardless of the text’s factual (semantic) content and without the need to obtain additional materials. As part of our QPA-FPT research we studied the link between the linguistic form of a text by Czech college students and their personality characteristics obtained from a psychodiagnostic test battery. The article also discusses the basis of the method, opportunities for practical application and potential use within psychological and pedagogical disciplines