Corpus of Affective Objects in Autobiographical Narratives of Italian University Students

This corpus contains 75 written autobiographical narratives related to affective objects, extracted from a larger dataset of 236 autobiographical narratives produced by Italian university students as part of a bilingual Italian–Spanish research protocol on self-concept and identity. Participants were asked to describe an object, person, or place they considered important or indispensable in their lives; this subcorpus includes exclusively the 75 responses in which participants chose to write about an object. Participants were prompted with the following question: "C'è qualche oggetto, persona o luogo importante per te o indispensabile nella tua vita? Descrivilo in dettaglio: la sua funzione, perché è così importante per te, ecc." Data were collected at three institutions in Emilia-Romagna: Università di Bologna (Political Science, Social and International Sciences), Università di Bologna (Modern Languages and Civilizations), and Università di Parma (Modern Languages and Civilizations). All participants provided written informed consent. The corpus is intended for research in corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the study of autobiographical memory, identity, material culture, and anthropology. The corpus is structured as a CSV file with four columns: participant ID, gender (M/F), degree programme and institution, and narrative text.