Cross-Cultural Universals of Affective Meaning

Osgood, Charles E.; May, William; Miron, Murray S.

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“…This tradition emphasizes that affective meaning-making is a mode of interpreting reality (affective semiosis, see [44]) that has its own specific logic (the primary process), which is different from rational, rule-based logic, but still systematic and endowed with inner consistency. Third, the copious literature on the semantic differential [69,70] has shown that semantic representation is grounded in three basic dimensions of meaning-evaluation, power, and activity. With few exceptions, these dimensions emerge systematically from hundreds of studies focused on a great many objects, adopting many different semantic scales, carried out in many cultural contexts, over more than half a century.…”

Section: The Affective Saturation Index 21 the Semiotic Definition Of Affect At The Basis Of The Asi: Affect As Meaningsmentioning

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Affective Saturation Index: A Lexical Measure of Affect

Gennaro

Carola

Ottaviani

et al. 2021

Entropy

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Affect plays a major role in the individual’s daily life, driving the sensemaking of experience, psychopathological conditions, social representations of phenomena, and ways of coping with others. The characteristics of affect have been traditionally investigated through physiological, self-report, and behavioral measures. The present article proposes a text-based measure to detect affect intensity: the Affective Saturation Index (ASI). The ASI rationale and the conceptualization of affect are overviewed, and an initial validation study on the ASI’s convergent and concurrent validity is presented. Forty individuals completed a non-clinical semi-structured interview. For each interview transcript, the ASI was esteemed and compared to the individual’s physiological index of propensity to affective arousal (measured by heart rate variability (HRV)); transcript semantic complexity (measured through the Semantic Entropy Index (SEI)); and lexical syntactic complexity (measured through the Flesch–Vacca Index (FVI)). ANOVAs and bi-variate correlations estimated the size of the relationships between indexes and sample characteristics (age, gender), then a set of multiple linear regressions tested the ASI’s association with HRV, the SEI, and the FVI. Results support the ASI construct and criteria validity. The ASI proved able to detect affective saturation in interview transcripts (SEI and FVI, adjusted R2 = 0.428 and adjusted R2 = 0.241, respectively) and the way the text’s affective saturation reflected the intensity of the individual’s affective state (HRV, adjusted R2 = 0.428). In conclusion, although the specificity of the sample (psychology students) limits the findings’ generalizability, the ASI provides the chance to use written texts to measure affect in accordance with a dynamic approach, independent of the spatio-temporal setting in which they were produced. In doing so, the ASI provides a way to empower the empirical analysis of fields such as psychotherapy and social group dynamics.

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Section: The Affective Saturation Index 21 the Semiotic Definition Of Affect At The Basis Of The Asi: Affect As Meaningsmentioning

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Affective Saturation Index: A Lexical Measure of Affect

Gennaro

Carola

Ottaviani

et al. 2021

Entropy

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“…In ACT, sentiments are represented using three dimensions (valence/evaluation, arousal/activity, and dominance/ power), which can be fundamental to one's interpretation of outcome of events on an emotional level. 12 Therefore, using this theory could be an effective approach to identifying behaviors and emotions that will align with the expectations of persons with dementia in specific situations, thereby reducing negative interactions.…”

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VIPCare: Understanding the support needed to create affective interactions between new caregivers and residents with dementia

Ghafurian

Francis

Tao

et al. 2022

Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineerin

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Introduction In this paper, we study the support needed by professional caregivers of those with dementia, and present a first step toward development of VIPCare, a novel application with the goal of assisting new caregivers at care-centres in interacting with residents with dementia. Methods A mixed-methods study including two questionnaires, two focus groups, and seven co-design sessions with 17 professional caregivers was conducted to (a) understand caregivers’ challenges/approaches used to reduce negative interactions with persons with dementia, (b) identify the existing gaps in supporting information for improving such interactions, and (c) co-design the user interface of an application that aims to help improve interactions between a new professional caregiver and persons with dementia. A pre-questionnaire assessed knowledge of smartphones and attitude toward technology. A post-questionnaire provided an initial evaluation of the designed user interface. Results Focus groups emphasized the importance of role-playing learned through trial and error. The layout/content of the application was then designed in four iterative paper-prototyping sessions with professional caregivers. An iOS/Android-based application was developed accordingly and was modified/improved in three iterative sessions. The initial results supported efficiency of VIPCare and suggested a low task load index. Conclusions We presented a first step toward understanding caregiver needs and developing an application that can help reduce negative interactions between professional caregivers and those with dementia.

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Biculturalism: Some Reflections and Speculations

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2005

Intercultural Discourse and Communication

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Cross-Cultural Universals of Affective Meaning

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Affective Saturation Index: A Lexical Measure of Affect

Affective Saturation Index: A Lexical Measure of Affect

VIPCare: Understanding the support needed to create affective interactions between new caregivers and residents with dementia

Biculturalism: Some Reflections and Speculations

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