Abstract

GARZON-VELANDIA, Diana Camila; BARRETO, Idaly  and  MEDINA-ARBOLEDA, Iván Felipe. Validation of a LIWC dictionary to identify intergroup emotions. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.52, pp.149-159.  Epub Mar 01, 2021. ISSN 0120-0534.  https://doi.org/10.14349/rlp.2020.v52.15.

Following the tradition of analysing psychological constructs based on language, this instrumental research aims to validate a dictionary of intergroup emotions, whose process was based on the design, conformation, and validation of word lists associated with 38 intergroup emotions, useful to identifying emotions in linguistic corpus analysed, using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software (LIWC), whose main function is to identify linguistic and psychological categories in texts. Nine judges divided into three groups rated the words in two parameters (pertinence and relevance of each word with the emotion) and the scores were complemented with an incomplete random block methodology, to estimate the qualification of the remaining words. Acceptable consistency was found among the judges, as well as adjustment of their scores in the Rasch model, which allowed accepting the obtained results. From these ratings, 9 % of the root words associated with 38 emotions (18 negative, 17 positive, and 3 neutral), subsequently supplemented with their respective endings, were cleared.

Keywords : Content analysis; linguistic analysis; intergroup emotions; content validity; political psychology.

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