Living Through Narratives: A Psycholinguistic Study of War Stories by Bohdan Lepky and Today's Ukrainians in Print and Digital Media.

This study is focused on identifying psycholinguistic markers of warrelated trauma in the narratives of today's Ukrainians and of the wellknown Ukrainian writer and public figure Bohdan Lepky. Our aim is twofold: (i) to identify any changes that occurred in the civilians at the end of the first year of Russia-Ukraine war; (ii) to compare the current data with those found in Lepky's literary works. Using the LIWC 2015 software (Pennebaker et al., 2015) and ANOVA statistics, we analysed 354 publicly available testimonies from the Facebook group "Writings from the War", together with 31 war stories by Lepky, and a reference corpus of 100 literary prose texts by Ukrainian authors. The social media narratives revealed three prominent LIWC categories related to social relations: 'We', 'Social' and 'Family'. A greater prevalence of the categories 'Affiliation' and 'Achievement' in the Facebook corpus compared to the literary and Lepkyi corpora, implied that Ukrainians were praising their advances after one year of resistance and fighting against the enemy. Lepky's stories showed none of these features, implying that he could not rely on others during the tragic times of that war a century ago. The data also showed that the Facebook users opted for an analytical style, focusing more on cognitive reprocessing of their painful experiences, thus reinforcing psychological resilience, which is seen as a positive trait in terms of mental health (Pennebaker et al., 2000). The style of Lepky's war stories is more narrative as the Dynamic Index of his texts is significantly higher than in two other corpora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]