Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is a complex cognitive, social, and emotional process that is increasingly prevalent in educational and professional settings. This study investigates the emotional states of individuals during CPS using a mixed-methods approach. Teams of four first completed a novel CPS task. Immediately after, each individual was placed in an isolated room where they reviewed the video of their group performing the task and self-reported their internal experiences throughout the task. We performed a linguistic analysis of these internal monologues, providing insights into the range of emotions individuals experience during CPS. Our analysis showed distinct patterns in language use, including characteristic unigrams and bigrams, key words and phrases, emotion labels, and semantic similarity between emotion-related words.

翻译：协作问题解决（CPS）是一种复杂的认知、社交与情感过程，在教育与职业环境中日益普遍。本研究采用混合方法探究个体在CPS过程中的情感状态。由四人组成的团队首先完成一项新颖的CPS任务。随后，每位个体被安置在独立房间内，回放其小组执行任务的录像，并自我报告在整个任务过程中的内部体验。我们对这些内部独白进行了语言分析，从而深入理解个体在CPS期间所经历的情感范围。分析结果显示，语言使用存在显著模式，包括特征性的单字词与双字词、关键词与短语、情感标签，以及情感相关词汇间的语义相似性。