Using Facebook data to measure psychological characteristics
23 April 2024
We would like to invite you to take part in a study to explore whether it is possible to understand a person’s personality, psychological resilience, emotional stability, coping, hardiness, and internal locus of control directly from the language used on Facebook.
The study will involve completing a set of online questionnaires that will take no longer than 1 hour to complete and providing us with your Facebook data. We will not ask you to provide any personally identifiable information.
Requirements
- To participate you must be:
- A Facebook user with at least 600 words on your account;
- Communicate on Facebook using English;
- Age 18 or older;
- A British citizen.
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Ethical approval
This study has been reviewed and given favourable opinion by QinetiQ's ethics committee on 14th April 2023.
About the researcher
This study is being run by QinetiQ's Human Performance team.
