Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland ; Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
PLoS One. 2013 Aug 30;8(8):e72859. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072859. eCollection 2013.
Language-and culture-specific norms are needed for research on emotion-laden stimuli. We present valence and arousal ratings for 420 Finnish nouns for a sample of 996 Finnish speakers. Ratings are provided both for the whole sample and for subgroups divided by age and gender in light of previous research suggesting age- and gender-specific reactivity to the emotional content in stimuli. Moreover, corpus-based frequency values and word length are provided as objective psycholinguistic measures of the nouns. The relationship between valence and arousal mainly showed the curvilinear relationship reported in previous studies. Age and gender effects on valence and arousal ratings were statistically significant but weak. The inherent affective properties of the words in terms of mean valence and arousal ratings explained more of the variance in the ratings. In all, the findings suggest that language- and culture-related factors influence the way affective properties of words are rated to a greater degree than demographic factors. This database will provide researchers with normative data for Finnish emotion-laden and emotionally neutral words. The normative database is available in Database S1.
对于涉及情感刺激的研究，需要语言和文化特定的规范。我们为 996 名芬兰语使用者样本中的 420 个芬兰名词提供了情感效价和唤醒度评分。评分既针对整个样本，也针对根据先前研究按年龄和性别划分的子样本提供，该研究表明，对刺激中情感内容的反应存在年龄和性别特异性。此外，还提供了基于语料库的频率值和单词长度作为名词的客观心理语言学度量。效价和唤醒度评分之间的关系主要显示了先前研究报告的曲线关系。年龄和性别对效价和唤醒度评分的影响具有统计学意义但较弱。根据平均效价和唤醒度评分，单词的内在情感属性解释了评分中更多的差异。总之，这些发现表明，语言和文化相关因素对情感词的评价方式的影响程度大于人口统计学因素。这个数据库将为研究人员提供芬兰情感词和非情感词的规范数据。规范数据库可在数据库 S1 中获取。
