Stability of Emotionality Scores

Abstract

We hypothesized the stability of scores on emotionality given by 111 young adults, whose mean age was 16.6 yr, 132 adults, whose mean age was 29.9 yr., and 48 older adults, whose mean age was 53.3 yr. Significant correlations were obtained between scores given to 210 words across age and sex groups. Pearson correlations were calculated over words and not over subjects. The correlations between scores of young people and adults were .90, between young and older people .80, and between adults and older people .87. Men's and women's scores correlated .89.

Mapeo de palabras relacionadas con la emoción en psicolingüística: una revisión de alcance para el idioma español

“…At the best of our possibilities, a starting point can be found in the early works of Algarrabel, Ruiz, and Sammartin (1996); and the many contributions of authors like Campos and Sueiro (1991); and Campos (1989a;1989b) in emotionality and Castilian words; all aimed to build psycholinguistic norms for Spanish language on relatively large sets of words.…”