The Stories We live By: A text mining study of email conversations
Method Stream: Text Mining
ECs: Only 14 EC (standard, no new/own data collection. Applicable in case of a clinical internship)
Description:
The stories we live by (Bohlmeijer & Westerhof, 2010) is a life review therapy for middle aged and older adults with depressive symptoms. An earlier study showed that the intervention was effective as a guided self-help intervention (Lamers et al., 2015). Participants and counselors shared email conversation about the progress. In this project, you will do a text mining analysis of the emails of the participants: what are the changes in sentiments and topics and how are these related to change in depressive symptoms. You will work with existing data that need some data management and then do text mining analyses, supported by the workshops in Advanced Research Methods. You will link qualitative analyses with text mining results.
Who are we looking for?
A student with an interest in life review therapy who can work responsibly with client data in text mining.
What do we offer?
Data are already present.