Matsuo Akiko, Du Baofa, Sasahara Kazutoshi
Department of Psychology, Tokai Gakuen University, Nagoya, Japan.
Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
Front Psychol. 2021 Apr 30;12:599024. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.599024. eCollection 2021.
Moral appraisals are found to be associated with a person's individual differences (e.g., political ideology), and the effects of individual differences on language use have been studied within the framework of the Moral Foundations Theory (MFT). However, the relationship between one's moral concern and the use of language involving morality on social media is not self-evident. The present exploratory study investigated that relationship using the MFT. Participants' tweets and self-reported responses to the questionnaire were collected to measure the degree of their appraisals according to the five foundations of the MFT. The Japanese version of the Moral Foundations Dictionary (J-MFD) was used to quantify the number of words in tweets relevant to the MFT's five moral foundations. The results showed that endorsement of the Fairness and Authority foundations predicted the word frequency in the J-MFD across all five foundations. The findings suggest that the trade-off relationship between the Fairness and Authority foundations plays a key role in online language communication. The implications and future directions to scrutinize that foundation are discussed.
研究发现道德评价与一个人的个体差异（如政治意识形态）相关，并且在道德基础理论（MFT）的框架内研究了个体差异对语言使用的影响。然而，一个人的道德关切与社交媒体上涉及道德的语言使用之间的关系并不明显。本探索性研究使用MFT调查了这种关系。收集了参与者的推文以及他们对问卷的自我报告回答，以根据MFT的五个基础来衡量他们的评价程度。使用日语版的道德基础词典（J-MFD）来量化推文中与MFT的五个道德基础相关的词汇数量。结果表明，对公平和权威基础的认同预测了J-MFD中所有五个基础的词频。研究结果表明，公平和权威基础之间的权衡关系在网络语言交流中起着关键作用。讨论了审视该基础的意义和未来方向。
