ObjectiveNarrative identity is a promising approach for understanding the content of individuals' ethnic identities but can be limited by the time‐intensive nature of human coding and the reliance on preestablished coding systems.BackgroundThe aim of our preregistered study is to elucidate the content of individuals' ethnicity‐related experiences using a novel statistical approach.MethodWe applied structural topic modeling (STM), a natural language processing tool, to narratives written by an ethnically diverse sample of 1149 young adults about a moment they felt aware of their ethnicity.ResultsWe identified 14 topics within ethnicity narratives and analyzed how each topic related to both the participant's ethnicity and the human‐coded themes of agency and communion. For example, the topic Gained perspective of structural inequality was associated with greater agency, whereas Peer dynamics was associated with greater communion. Ethnic/cultural celebration was associated with both.ConclusionsThis study introduces STM as a useful tool for extracting topic content in narrative data and demonstrates how the multi‐method assessment of ethnicity narratives provides greater insight into the content of ethnic experiences. These findings contribute to our understanding of contextualized aspects of personality, including the innovative ways we might examine them.

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使用结构主题建模来理解与种族相关的叙述


目标叙事身份是理解个人种族身份内容的一种很有前途的方法，但可能会受到人类编码的时间密集型性质和对预先建立的编码系统的依赖的限制。背景我们预先注册的研究的目的是使用一种新颖的统计方法阐明个人与种族相关的经历的内容。方法我们将结构主题建模 （STM） 一种自然语言处理工具应用于 1149 名不同种族的年轻人样本撰写的叙述，这些叙述讲述了他们意识到自己种族的那一刻。结果我们在种族叙事中确定了 14 个主题，并分析了每个主题如何与参与者的种族以及代理和共融的人类编码主题相关。例如，主题 Gain perspective of structural inequality 与更大的能动性相关，而 Peer dynamics 与更大的共融相关。种族/文化庆祝活动与两者有关。结论本研究将 STM 作为在叙述数据中提取主题内容的有用工具，并展示了种族叙述的多方法评估如何提供对种族体验内容的更深入的了解。这些发现有助于我们理解人格的情境化方面，包括我们可能检查它们的创新方式。