Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy
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Seoul International School, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Research Article   
  Public Psychological Response to The Government's Medical School Quota Expansion Policy and Doctor's Opposition: A Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis Approach
  Author(s): Jimin Park* and Sunah Hyun
  
  In November 2023, the South Korean government announced a policy to increase medical school enrollment by 2000 students each year, ending the freeze that had been in place since. In response, the medical community collectively expressed resistance, resorting to strikes and resignation. This study investigates whether the public shares factual information or primarily expresses personal and psychological reactions to social phenomena. This study employed text mining techniques, including Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF), structured topic modeling, and sentiment word analysis. The analysis focused on 1,10,227 comments from 432 YouTube news articles related to medical school enrollment between November 10, 2023 and June 9, 2024. To mitigate temporal and political biases, the samples were selected by distinguishing between political orientations and time periods. This an.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35841/2161-0487.24.14.491

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