The Emotional Landscape of Aviation Pilots: Analysis of Online Professional Forums Using Natural Language Processing
Adrienne S. Renwick , PhD, LCPC, NCC et al.
This study investigated burnout related to emotions in three categories of pilots: commercial passenger, commercial cargo, and military. While pilot burnout has been previously studied, challenges in self-reporting limit understanding. This study extends previous research by analyzing pilots' anonymous online forum posts to gain insight into burnout-related emotions. Natural Language Processing was conducted with the RoBERTa-base-go_emotions model, which analyzed 1,130,530 online forum posts fro