Cognitive and social well-being in older adulthood: The CoSoWELL corpus of written life stories.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents the Cognitive and Social WELL-being (CoSoWELL) project that consists of two components. One is a large corpus of narratives written by over 1000 North American older adults (55+ years old) in five test sessions before and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The other component is a rich collection of socio-demographic data collected through a survey from the same participants. This paper introduces the first release of the corpus consisting of 1.3 million tokens and the survey data (CoSoWELL version 1.0). It also presents a series of analyses validating design decisions for creating the corpus of narratives written about personal life events that took place in the distant past, recent past (yesterday) and future, along with control narratives. We report resu

SUBMITTER: Kyrolainen AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9400578 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature