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Computación y Sistemas
On-line version ISSN 2007-9737Print version ISSN 1405-5546
Abstract
CALVO, Hiram. Psychological Attachment Style Determination Using a Word Space Model. Comp. y Sist. [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.4, pp.1269-1276. Epub Feb 10, 2021. ISSN 2007-9737. https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-22-4-3064.
In this work we experiment with the hypothesis that words a subject uses and their psychological attachment style (as defined by Bartholomew and Horowitz), can be related. In order to verify this hypothesis, we identified characteristic patterns for each style of attachment (secure, fearful, dismissing, preoccupied) by mapping words into a word space model on a series of autobiographic texts written by a set of 202 participants. Additionally, a psychological instrument (questionnaire) was applied to these same participants to measure their attachment style. A Support Vector Machine was trained, and we found that attachment style could be predicted from text within a range of 64% to 85% for different attachment styles.
Keywords : Psychological attachment; autobiography; text classification; support vector machines.