Narrative Psychology Analysis

Large datasets are used very frequently in Text Analysis research and human behaviors profilling. This lecture introduces the concept of narrative text analysis and its use and role in personality assesment. Upon completing the lecture, the
reader should be able to:
1. Describe the application of narrative text analysis in the human behavior dan personality identification field
2. Understand the limitations and interesting things of narrative or text analysis

Key Points
• Narrative analysis is a research technique in the Artificial Inteligent filed esepeciall Information Retrieval topic.
• It is advocated in situations where existing data contain very little information on the circumstances surrounding an pshycologic trauma.
• The analytic approaches in narrative analysis are often subjective, and great care must be taken to develop data consistency
to support the results of the analysis.

Aims
• Recognize the value of narrative data that accompanies coded data
• Provide a framework for exploring narratives
• Ultimate Goal: see to better understand circumstances of human behaviors and personality

There are two primary objectives to this lecture. They include :
(1) having the ability to recognize the value that narrative data add to large existing datasets,
and
(2) understanding the foundation or framework that one can use in exploring narrative data.

Developing Categories for Analysis categorized:
• Initial categories should be determined by the objectives of the research
• Specific categories can be developed from the review of the data and the identification
of frequent or significant themes, words, circumstances
(Thomas, DR)

The categories that are developed for analysis are often considered from two
perspectives. First, researchers should develop hypotheses based upon the
research objectives of the study. These hypotheses will illustrate categories
that a researcher should initially identify in reviewing the data. For example,
consider the hypothesis that a specific type of equipment is involved in
occupational injuries. The initial categories developed for the analysis will
include this type of equipment and its variations.
The second perspective is to develop categories after reviewing the data.
Categories can be developed based upon the frequency in which particular
themes, words, or phrases appear in the data.

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