Hill Kaylin E, Guyon-Harris Katherine L, Humphreys Kathryn L
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, 230 Appleton Pl, Nashville, TN 37203, United States.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3414 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3205, United States.
Data Brief. 2024 Jul 17;55:110745. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110745. eCollection 2024 Aug.
The way caregivers think of their infants and young children may impact caregiving behavior. One way to assess caregivers' thoughts of their young children is to prompt them to describe the child's personality. Popular methods to analyzing valenced language include the use of software approaches, which have limitations in scoring and application. The present investigation offers an alternative scoring system for the emotional tone of words and phrases relevant to descriptions of infants and children. Using a database of personality descriptions provided by pregnant people and parents to describe their child's personality, we asked experts in infant mental health and related disciplines ( 51) to rate the words/phrases with regard to the emotional tone or connotation of the descriptive words provided (e.g., positive, neutral, or negative). Experts (i.e., participants) were individuals with self-reported expertise in infants and young children via their profession. Participants were recruited via email to known infant and early childhood mental health practicians and researchers and through participant referral. A total of 496 unique words or phrases were rated by the experts, and in order to reduce participant burden, experts were randomly assigned approximately half of the words. From these ratings, we computed a continuous measure of average valence score across all raters and a categorical variable representing expert consensus (i.e., if ≥80 % of experts agreed it was positive or negative it was assigned that category, otherwise it was assigned neutral). As such, the data provided include caregiver adjectives used to describe their young children, expert ratings of the emotional tone of the provided description, average emotional tone for each word, and expert consensus for each word.
照顾者对其婴幼儿的看法可能会影响照顾行为。评估照顾者对其幼儿看法的一种方法是促使他们描述孩子的性格。分析有情感倾向语言的常用方法包括使用软件方法，但这些方法在评分和应用方面存在局限性。本研究提供了一种替代评分系统，用于评估与婴幼儿描述相关的单词和短语的情感基调。我们使用孕妇和父母提供的描述孩子性格的数据库，邀请婴幼儿心理健康及相关学科的专家（51名）对所提供描述性词语的情感基调或内涵（如积极、中性或消极）进行评分。专家（即参与者）是通过其职业自我报告在婴幼儿方面具有专业知识的个人。通过电子邮件向知名的婴幼儿心理健康从业者和研究人员招募参与者，并通过参与者推荐。专家们对总共496个独特的单词或短语进行了评分，为减轻参与者负担，专家们被随机分配大约一半的单词。根据这些评分，我们计算了所有评分者的平均情感倾向得分的连续测量值，以及一个代表专家共识的分类变量（即，如果≥80%的专家认为它是积极或消极的，则将其归入该类别，否则将其归为中性）。因此，所提供的数据包括照顾者用于描述其幼儿的形容词、对所提供描述的情感基调的专家评分、每个单词的平均情感基调以及每个单词的专家共识。
