AUTHOR=Du Xiaowei TITLE=Linguistic Features and Psychological States: The Case of Virginia Woolf JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.823313 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.823313 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=This study investigated the relation between psychological states and linguistic features with the case of Virginia Woolf. We analyzed the data from The Diary of Virginia Woolf (Bell, 1984) and Virginia Woolf: Biography (Bell, 1972) by automatic text analysis, stepwise multiple regression, and Pearson correlation. The results suggested that the significant linguistic features can jointly predict the psychological states of Virginia Woolf, including anger words, the absolutist word “everything”, and the total of first-person plural pronouns. Meanwhile, we developed an equation that can predict the psychological states of Virginia Woolf. In addition, text lengths affected the prediction of the psychological states of Virginia Woolf, but not the accuracy of the prediction. We discussed the findings and enumerated the limitations of this study at the end of the paper. The results not only complemented previous studies in understanding of the relation between language and psychological health, but also facilitated timely identification, intervention, and prevention of mental disorders.