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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使用结构主题模型来理解与种族相关的叙述


客观叙事身份是理解个人种族身份内容的一种有前途的方法，但可能受到人类编码的时间密集性和对预先建立的编码系统的依赖的限制。背景我们预先注册研究的目的是阐明个人种族身份的内容使用新颖的统计方法与种族相关的经历。方法我们将结构主题模型（STM）（一种自然语言处理工具）应用于由 1149 名不同种族的年轻人组成的样本所写的关于他们意识到自己种族的时刻的叙述。结果我们确定了 14种族叙事中的主题，并分析每个主题如何与参与者的种族以及人类编码的代理和交流主题相关。例如，主题获得结构性不平等的视角与更大的代理相关，而同行动态与更大的交流有关。民族/文化庆典结论本研究介绍了 STM 作为提取叙事数据中主题内容的有用工具，并展示了对种族叙事的多方法评估如何提供对种族经历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法。