Bridging psychometrics and language: a method for extracting leadership insights from open-text responses
Lauri Ahonen, Hannele Niemi, Vesa Nissinen · 2026
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Description
Lauri Ahonen, Hannele Niemi, and Vesa Nissinen turn written feedback into scores in a 2026 methods paper. Leaders often get open text comments in 360 degree reviews, rich but hard to compare. Their compact language method reads such comments and ties them to a known leadership model. It works across languages, since the input feedback arrives in several tongues.
After cleaning and translation, the method rates the feeling in each text. It also scores how strongly each leadership trait shows, by comparing text vectors with seed phrases for each trait. Checks against standard questionnaire scores run three ways, with decoy matches as controls. A sound method here would let firms mine years of stored comments instead of letting them sit unread.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lauri Ahonen, Hannele Niemi, Vesa Nissinen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |