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Area of Science:

  • Computational Psychology
  • Machine Learning Applications in Social Sciences
  • Psychological Construct Formalization

Background:

  • Traditional methods for defining psychological constructs include quantitative (theory-driven, self-report) and qualitative (exploratory, text-based) approaches.
  • Quantitative methods may yield incomplete construct understanding, while qualitative methods face scalability challenges in data processing.
  • A need exists for methods combining qualitative comprehensiveness with quantitative scalability for psychological construct definition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a new computational method for defining psychological constructs using semistructured text data.
  • To integrate qualitative insights with quantitative scalability for robust construct analysis.
  • To demonstrate the method's applicability in deriving classes of emotion regulation strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Participants generated sentences reflecting instances of a psychological construct via structured questions.
  • Computational methods (embeddings, clustering) were applied to numerical representations of sentences to identify psychologically relevant classes.
  • The process included bias measurement/correction and assessment of cluster validity via human judgment.

Main Results:

  • The computational method successfully derived classes of emotion regulation strategies from text data.
  • The approach demonstrated the combination of machine learning and psychology for conceptualizing psychological processes.
  • Derived classes represented psychologically relevant groupings of emotion regulation attempts.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed computational method offers a scalable and comprehensive approach to defining psychological constructs.
  • This interdisciplinary approach enhances the conceptualization and analysis of complex psychological processes.
  • The method provides a framework for leveraging text data and machine learning in psychological research.