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A transformer-based embedding approach to developing short-form psychological measures.

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Summary

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This study introduces a new method for creating shorter psychological surveys using AI-powered semantic embeddings. This approach efficiently reduces items while maintaining strong psychometric properties, offering a data-independent alternative for psychological measure development.

Keywords:

item reduction psychological measures semantic clustering short-form development transformer-based embedding

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Area of Science:

Psychological Measurement
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing

Background:

Developing short-form psychological measures is crucial for reducing participant burden and resource expenditure.
Existing methods for short-form development often require extensive data collection and analysis using factor analysis or machine learning.
There is a need for efficient, data-independent approaches to psychological item reduction.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and evaluate a novel, data-independent method for psychological item reduction using transformer-based semantic embeddings.
To develop a short-form version of the International Personality Item Pool Big-Five Factor Markers (IPIP-50) using this novel approach.
To compare the psychometric properties of the developed short form with existing methods.

Main Methods:

Utilized transformer-based semantic embeddings (sentence-t5-xxl model) to represent items from the IPIP-50.
Applied K-means clustering to the semantic embeddings to group similar items.
Selected representative items based on their proximity to cluster centroids to form a 30-item short form.

Main Results:

The resulting 30-item short form successfully preserved the original five-factor structure of the IPIP-50.
The short form demonstrated strong psychometric properties, including reliability and validity.
The proposed method achieved comparable reliability, convergent validity, and predictive performance to Classical Test Theory and Genetic Algorithm approaches.

Conclusions:

Transformer-based semantic embeddings offer a powerful and efficient approach for psychological item reduction and the development of new measures.
This data-independent method provides a linguistically grounded and resource-efficient alternative to traditional data-dependent reduction techniques.
The findings support the feasibility of using AI for developing robust and concise psychological assessments.