BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Health Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1612940
This article is part of the Research TopicIntegrating Health Psychology in Practice: Enhancing Well-being and Improving Health Outcomes Across Diverse ContextsView all 16 articles
The symbolizations emerging from aviation crew members' perspectives on well-being: A linguistic analysis using emotional text mining
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Dynamic, Clinical Psychology and Health, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- 2Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
- 3IT-APA (Italia-Associazione Psicologia dell’Aviazione), Via Duccio di Buoninsegna 22, 00142, Rome,, Italy
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Background: Well-being is a complex and structured construct recently studied in aviation, primarily through self-report measures. The primary aim of this study is to explore aviation crews' representations of well-being using the Emotional Text Mining (ETM) method. A secondary aim is to examine whether different representations are associated with occupational variables.Method: 492 participants (302 males) completed an online survey via SurveyMonkey, including an open-ended question prompting them to describe their perception of well-being. Additionally, socio-occupational variables were collected. The texts were analyzed using ETM, identifying how a social group emotionally symbolizes a topic.The analysis revealed three clusters: (1) Material and Family Stability, (2) Individual Self-Development, and (3) Connection and Social Realization. These clusters are positioned within a factorial space defined by two factors: one contrasting individual vs. social representations of well-being and the other differentiating well-being as a set of given elements vs. an active, evolving process. No associations with occupational variables were found. The findings suggest a concept of well-being in which the work dimension is considered only marginally, primarily for its material and economic value, and not as part of a broader sense of personal fulfilment. Administering the survey within a workplace setting may have heightened social desirability bias, potentially influenced by fears of professional repercussions.
Keywords: wellbeing, Aviation, aviation crew members, Emotional text mining, Psychological service
Received: 16 Apr 2025; Accepted: 03 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence: Alessia Renzi, Department of Dynamic, Clinical Psychology and Health, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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