Our Words in a State of Emergency: Psychological–Linguistic Analysis of Utterances on the COVID-19 Situation in the Czech Republic

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12646-021-00613-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12646-021-00613-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12646-021-00613-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12646-021-00613-y</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Our Words in a State of Emergency: Psychological–Linguistic Analysis of Utterances on the COVID-19 Situation in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The study focuses on psychological–linguistic analysis of utterances provided by N = 2522 respondents aged 18–89 years in the period of March–May 2020, for the research of JUPSYCOR (Psychological Impacts of the Coronavirus Epidemic in the Czech Republic). The utterances relate to the interpretation of the state of emergency, the COVID-19 epidemic, and its subjectively perceived impacts. Simultaneously, the study examines the relationship between the analysed texts and the results of the SEHW (Scales of Emotional Habitual Subjective Well-being) questionnaire, which determines the valence of experienced emotions. The aim of the study is to analyse the lexical and morphological layers of the utterances, especially which specific words resonated in the individual questions, what is their emotional load, and which linguistic features of the texts may refer to the respondents’ positive/negative emotional response. One of the outputs based on the results of the quantitative analyses determines that the most distinctive words are connected to negative emotions and most frequently relate to social environment, anxiety, and inhibition. Furthermore, the study proves a positive correlation between a fear scale and a higher occurrence of future tense and use of emotionally negatively loaded words, especially in women. Numerous differences among the individual age and gender cohorts were also proved. The significance of the study lies predominantly in the combination of the linguistic and psychological levels of the analysis, in the utilization of two mutually complementary utterances, and in the presentation of new insights on how people use words when they face an unexpected and emotionally disturbing situation.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Our Words in a State of Emergency: Psychological–Linguistic Analysis of Utterances on the COVID-19 Situation in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku anglicky

The study focuses on psychological–linguistic analysis of utterances provided by N = 2522 respondents aged 18–89 years in the period of March–May 2020, for the research of JUPSYCOR (Psychological Impacts of the Coronavirus Epidemic in the Czech Republic). The utterances relate to the interpretation of the state of emergency, the COVID-19 epidemic, and its subjectively perceived impacts. Simultaneously, the study examines the relationship between the analysed texts and the results of the SEHW (Scales of Emotional Habitual Subjective Well-being) questionnaire, which determines the valence of experienced emotions. The aim of the study is to analyse the lexical and morphological layers of the utterances, especially which specific words resonated in the individual questions, what is their emotional load, and which linguistic features of the texts may refer to the respondents’ positive/negative emotional response. One of the outputs based on the results of the quantitative analyses determines that the most distinctive words are connected to negative emotions and most frequently relate to social environment, anxiety, and inhibition. Furthermore, the study proves a positive correlation between a fear scale and a higher occurrence of future tense and use of emotionally negatively loaded words, especially in women. Numerous differences among the individual age and gender cohorts were also proved. The significance of the study lies predominantly in the combination of the linguistic and psychological levels of the analysis, in the utilization of two mutually complementary utterances, and in the presentation of new insights on how people use words when they face an unexpected and emotionally disturbing situation.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50103 - Cognitive sciences

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Psychological Studies

ISSN

0033-2968

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

66

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

IN - Indická republika

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

239-258

Kód UT WoS článku

000673053000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85110688923