Construction Procedure
Several databases of mood-related vocabularies were combined. In addition to the original emotion words in the TC-LIWC, we addedwords from the Chinese Sentiment Lexicon (Cho, 2011) and the Chinese Emotion Word Categories (Cheng, 2011). A research team (including three professors, a doctoral student, a master's student and a university student. All are in Psychology) was organized. They generated moreemotion-related vocabularies through associations, brainstorming, and discussions.Together, a total of 1,492 emotion words were collected as the raw material for later examinations.
All the words were randomly divided into four lists and rated by raters who had no knowledge on the purpose of this study. Consequently, at least 6 ratersrated each word on positivity, arousal level, and interpersonal relatedness. We further matched our words with those that had been rated in the previous database of Cho’s (2011) and correlated our ratings with theirs. Given these 218 words, correlation of .97 was found on positivity dimension; correlation of .77 was found on the arousal dimension. The results showed that our ratings match well with the other databases. At last, four categories of words including high/low positivity by high/low arousal level were selected based on the distributions on these two dimensions.
All the words were randomly divided into four lists and rated by raters who had no knowledge on the purpose of this study. Consequently, at least 6 ratersrated each word on positivity, arousal level, and interpersonal relatedness. We further matched our words with those that had been rated in the previous database of Cho’s (2011) and correlated our ratings with theirs. Given these 218 words, correlation of .97 was found on positivity dimension; correlation of .77 was found on the arousal dimension. The results showed that our ratings match well with the other databases. At last, four categories of words including high/low positivity by high/low arousal level were selected based on the distributions on these two dimensions.