Profiling the Cognitive and Emotional States of Artists through War-Conditioned Narratives

The study dataset investigates the linguistic and narrative traces of wartime psychological resilience and identity reconstruction through a comparative analysis of two Ukrainian media corpora: Harper’s Bazaar Ukraine (2025) and Postimpreza (2024). Both collections document artists' autobiographical reflections during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, yet differ profoundly in the biographical positions of their subjects — civilian artists and artist-combatants. Utilizing a Trace-Behavioural Linguistic Matrix (TBLM) for profiling, this research identifies emotional, cognitive, and social markers embedded in spontaneous narrative productions, with attention to intensity, valence, regulatory patterns, self- and group-identification, and collective memory. Results demonstrate that both civilian and combatant narratives encode distinct yet converging strategies of meaning-making, identity negotiation, and trauma processing. The study confirms the methodological robustness of TBLM in conditions of extreme sociocultural disruption and highlights its potential for broader applications in trauma linguistics, narrative psychology, and behavioral profiling. Findings also contribute to a more nuanced understanding of cultural memory, wartime identity transformations, and the ethics of public trauma narration. The research offers methodological insights for future cross-corpus, multilingual, and interdisciplinary studies of war-related discourse.