Validation of a visual analogue scale in a pilot neuro-linguistic experiment
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https://doi.org/10.33910/2687-0223-2023-5-4-272-282Keywords:
rating scales, visual analogue scale, VAS, 2B-PLS, neurolinguistic researchAbstract
The article deals with theoretical and practical aspects of assessing the psycho-emotional status using a visual analogue scale (VAS) within the framework of neurolinguistic experiment. The available studies focused on using the VAS mainly for the assessment of health status in patients. There is also a small number of linguistic studies that used the VAS method and demonstrated reliable results. However, the VAS has not yet been used to assess the sequence effect, which affects the psycho-emotional state of the respondent and hence the purity of experimental results. The purpose of the present study, which is an integral part of the linguistic EEG experiment, was to investigate the efficacy of the VAS method in terms of neurolinguistic tasks performed.
We conducted a pilot EEG experiment which involved 28 university students. The test subjects were divided into two equal subgroups: those who performed two neurolinguistic tasks and those who performed only one of the two tasks. Before and immediately after the experiment, the participants completed several visual analogue scales to assess their situational psycho-emotional state.
The data obtained by 2B-PLS analysis show not only the effectiveness of the scales used on healthy participants in neurolinguistic experiments to measure internal state and experiences, but also the practical importance of its use. The VAS method is capable of determining the most harmonious order of the experiment tasks — i. e., the order which minimizes the difference in the respondents’ psycho-emotional status before and after the completion of the tasks. Further, the indicators of the scales can be successfully used as variables in the analysis of neurolinguistic data.
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