Translators’ Style Differences Based on the Big Five Personality Model: Personality Traits, Corpus Evidence and Occupational Psychological Pressure Characteristics
Yunruo MaAbstract
Objective
Professional translators face persistent occupational psychological pressure from long-term intensive translation tasks, resulting in fluctuating mental states and uneven mental health levels, which further shape personalized translation styles. Existing studies neglect the internal correlation among personality traits, linguistic style and translators’ psychological states. Based on the Big Five Personality Model, this paper explores translator style differences, analyzes their occupational pressure characteristics, and provides theoretical support for improving translators’ long-term mental health.
Subjects and Methods
This study selects professional translators with different working years as research subjects. It adopts corpus quantitative analysis, personality scale measurement and psychological questionnaire investigation. It compares individual linguistic style features, and collects data on translators’ occupational psychological pressure, real-time mental states and mental health status for correlation empirical analysis.
Results
Different personality traits significantly differentiate translators’ linguistic expression styles. Neurotic traits aggravate task-based psychological pressure and trigger unstable negative mental states, while extroversion and conscientiousness effectively relieve occupational pressure, optimize mental states, and produce positive protective effects on translators’ mental health.
Conclusions
Personality traits are core endogenous factors affecting translators’ style formation and psychological states. Targeted psychological adjustment based on personality characteristics can effectively alleviate translators’ chronic occupational psychological pressure, correct negative mental states, stabilize good mental health conditions, and promote the coordinated development of translation competence and occupational mental well-being.
Corresponding Author
Yunruo Ma, Huanghe University of Science and Technology, Zhengzhou 450061, Henan, China.