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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Social Media Analysis

Background:

  • Temporal orientation, the emphasis on past, present, or future, impacts life outcomes.
  • Existing measures of temporal orientation are limited.
  • Social media offers a vast, untapped source of linguistic data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate an automated method for measuring temporal orientation using social media language.
  • To explore the relationships between temporal orientation and demographic/psychological factors.

Main Methods:

  • Human judges rated the temporal orientation of 4,302 social media messages.
  • A machine learning classifier was trained on these ratings.
  • The classifier was applied to 1.3 million messages from 5,372 participants.

Main Results:

  • The classifier achieved high accuracy (0.72) and specificity (0.77) in predicting temporal orientation.
  • Future-oriented individuals were older, more conscientious, less impulsive, less depressed, and more satisfied with life.
  • Present-oriented individuals showed opposite patterns.

Conclusions:

  • Automated language analysis of social media is a viable method for assessing temporal orientation.
  • Temporal orientation is linked to age, gender, personality, life satisfaction, and depression.
  • This approach complements traditional methods and deepens understanding of language-personality links.