The Emotion Word Fluency Test (EWFT): Initial psychometric, validation, and physiological evidence in young adults

Abeare, Christopher A.; Freund, Sabrina; Kaploun, Kristen; McAuley, Tara; Dumitrescu, Claudiu

doi:10.1080/13803395.2016.1259396

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“…This conclusion is consistent with other findings regarding emotional verbal fluency technique (e.g. Abeare et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…To our knowledge, few results based on the use of such a methodology have been published, and traditional indicators, such as the number of correct responses, errors, semantic switches, semantic clusters, phonemic switches, and phonemic clusters have been taken into consideration in the analyses; typical analysis usually consists in quantifying the total production of words (e.g. Abeare et al 2017; Gawda and Szepietowska 2013, 2016; Rossell 2006; Sass et al 2013; Wauters and Marquardt 2017).…”

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The Structure of the Concepts Related to Love Spectrum: Emotional Verbal Fluency Technique Application, Initial Psychometrics, and Its Validation

Gawda

2019

J Psycholinguist Res

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Love has been thoroughly studied and a variety of definitions as well as types of love have been described in the literature. Given the data presenting natural language of love concept, the aim of the two present studies is to demonstrate a new technique which enables description of the structure of emotion concepts within love spectrum. This technique is based on emotional verbal fluency tasks. The procedure and the coding system used are reported in the article along with the data on reliability and standardization of the emotional verbal fluency technique. Construct validity is demonstrated by correlations of the emotional verbal fluency tasks with semantic and letter verbal fluency tasks, while discriminant validity is shown by correlations with other measures, such as the Triangular Love Scale, the Love Attitudes Scale, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. The article also presents how the emotional verbal fluency technique can be used in exploring the structure of emotion concepts within love spectrum. This is based on a hierarchical cluster analysis. An examination of connections between semantic clusters identified in the emotional verbal fluency tasks allows describing a structure of the concepts within love spectrum, such as liking, infatuation, love, and show of its differentiation. The presented technique taking into account natural language is of value in assessments of the structure of emotion concepts.

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“…This conclusion is consistent with other findings regarding emotional verbal fluency technique (e.g. Abeare et al 2017).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Structure of the Concepts Related to Love Spectrum: Emotional Verbal Fluency Technique Application, Initial Psychometrics, and Its Validation

Gawda

2019

J Psycholinguist Res

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“…A subset of participants were also asked to complete another telephone-based cognitive task (i.e., a verbal fluency test) in which they were asked to first name all words they could think of in one minute that started with the letter "A" (excluding proper names and morphological variants) and then name all animals they could think of also in 1 minute. In prior work, heart rate was found to be negatively correlated with performance on the letter fluency task suggesting that this task is associated with sympathetic arousal [46]. In both tasks, participants were informed that their responses were being recorded.…”

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Using consumer-wearable technology for remote assessment of physiological response to stress in the naturalistic environment

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Psychosocial stress is a major risk factor for morbidity and mortality related to a wide range of health conditions and has a significant negative impact on public health. Quantifying exposure to stress in the naturalistic environment can help to better understand its health effects and identify strategies for timely intervention. The objective of the current project was to develop and test the infrastructure and methods necessary for using wearable technology to quantify individual response to stressful situations and to determine if popular and accessible fitness trackers such as Fitbit® equipped with an optical heart rate (HR) monitor could be used to detect physiological response to psychosocial stress in everyday life. The participants in this study were University of Minnesota students (n = 18) that owned a Fitbit® tracker and had at least one upcoming examination. Continuous HR and activity measurements were obtained during a 7-day observation period containing examinations selfreported by the participants. Participants responded to six ecological momentary assessment surveys per day (~2 hour intervals) to indicate occurrence of stressful events. We compared HR during stressful events (e.g., exams) to baseline HR during periods indicated as non-stressful using mixed effects modeling. Our results show that HR was elevated by 8.9 beats per minute during exams and by 3.2 beats per minute during non-exam stressors. These results are consistent with prior laboratory findings and indicate that consumer wearable fitness trackers could serve as a valuable source of information on exposure to psychosocial stressors encountered in the naturalistic environment.

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“…In literature, there are a few studies exploring emotional verbal fluency, however, they use traditional (quantitative) indicators, such as the number of correct responses, errors, clusters, and switches (e.g. Abeare et al 2017;Gawda andSzepietowska 2013, 2016;Rossell 2006;Wauters and Marquardt 2017). The present analysis focuses on the content of semantic clusters identified on the basis on words produced by subjects.…”

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The structure of lay-concepts within the fear spectrum revealed using emotional verbal fluency

Gawda

2020

Curr Psychol

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Given the fact that natural language analysis can distinguish constituents of mental constructs, the present research was designed to investigate the structure of concepts related to the broad spectrum of emotions comprising worry, fear, anxiety, and panic, which in this article is referred to as the 'fear spectrum'. A new technique presented here is based on a word association task and enables a description of the structure of emotion concepts. The technique is a variant of a verbal fluency task, i.e. emotional verbal fluency technique. Two studies have been conducted: the first to examine the cognitive structure of concepts within the fear spectrum (n = 280, 150 women, 130 men) and the second to confirm the stability of word association in the fear tasks and differentiation of the fear concepts in relation to trait anxiety and dogmatism (n = 190, 100 women, 90 men). A hierarchical clustering analysis, based on the linguistic material, i.e. words produced by the participants for the task of anxiety, was performed to present in what way the emotional verbal fluency technique can be applied to explore the structure of emotional concepts. According to our results, there is a relatively constant tendency in producing semantic clusters (emotional word association) among lay people. Moreover, produced clusters allow to describe the structure and to differentiate lay-concepts within the fear spectrum, such as worry, fear, anxiety, panic [respectively in Polish: obawa, lęk, strach, panika].

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The Emotion Word Fluency Test (EWFT): Initial psychometric, validation, and physiological evidence in young adults

Abstract: Taken together, our findings provide initial support for the use of the EWFT as a measure of emotion word generation ability in young adults. This measure may prove to be useful in the assessment of affective language production in patient populations.

Cited by 31 publications

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The Structure of the Concepts Related to Love Spectrum: Emotional Verbal Fluency Technique Application, Initial Psychometrics, and Its Validation

The Structure of the Concepts Related to Love Spectrum: Emotional Verbal Fluency Technique Application, Initial Psychometrics, and Its Validation

Using consumer-wearable technology for remote assessment of physiological response to stress in the naturalistic environment

The structure of lay-concepts within the fear spectrum revealed using emotional verbal fluency

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