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Preliminary Analysis of the Relationship between Language Use and Subjective Well-being

주관적 삶의 질과 언어 사용의 관계성 분석

  • Received : 2011.09.01
  • Accepted : 2011.11.10
  • Published : 2011.11.30
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Abstract

Individuals' language use has been hypothesized as a useful tool for the analysis of psychological aspects. This study examined relationships between language use and their subjective well-being, which consists of life satisfaction and feeling about life. For this, 126 college students wrote an essay and responded to the subjective well-being scale. Then we analyzed their writings through KLIWC (Korean Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) and compared language use between the high and the low groups of subjective well-being. We also examined the relationships between KLIWC factors and the two sub-factors of subjective well being. The results shows that various individual factors of KLIWC reflect participants' subjective well-being and provids preliminary descriptive data on language use and subjective well-being.

개인의 언어 사용 경향성은 그 개인의 심리적 측면을 분석할 수 있는 유용한 도구로 생각되어 왔으며 따라서 언어분석은 심리적 특성의 분석을 위해 중요하게 사용되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 주관적 삶의 질을 구성하는 두 지표에 해당하는 삶에 대한 느낌과 삶에 대한 만족도가 언어와 어떤 관련성을 지니는가를 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 126명의 남녀 대학생들을 대상으로 추출한 글쓰기 자료를 사용하여 KLIWC (Korean Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count)를 통해 언어 분석을 시도하였으며 주관적 삶의 질의 상 하위 집단 간에 어떤 차이가 있는지를 살펴보았다. 또한 KLIWC 변인들과 주관적 삶의 질을 구성하는 두 하위변인들 간의 개별적 관계성들이 분석되었으며, 그 결과, 다양한 차이점들과 연관성들이 관찰되었다. 이러한 결과들은 주관적 삶의 질과 언어 사용의 연관성에 대한 이후 연구들에 대해 예비적이고 기초적인 자료를 제공할 것으로 기대된다.

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