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Effect of mood, social connectivity and age in online depression community via topic and linguistic analysis
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posted on 2023-01-27, 04:03 authored by B Dao, Thin NguyenThin Nguyen, D Phung, Svetha VenkateshSvetha VenkateshDepression afflicts one in four people during their lives. Several studies have shown that for the isolated and mentally ill, the Web and social media provide effective platforms for supports and treatments as well as to acquire scientific, clinical understanding of this mental condition. More and more individuals affected by depression join online communities to seek for information, express themselves, share their concerns and look for supports [12]. For the first time, we collect and study a large online depression community of more than 12,000 active members from Live Journal. We examine the effect of mood, social connectivity and age on the online messages authored by members in an online depression community. The posts are considered in two aspects: what is written (topic) and how it is written (language style). We use statistical and machine learning methods to discriminate the posts made by bloggers in low versus high valence mood, in different age categories and in different degrees of social connectivity. Using statistical tests, language styles are found to be significantly different between low and high valence cohorts, whilst topics are significantly different between people whose different degrees of social connectivity. High performance is achieved for low versus high valence post classification using writing style as features. The finding suggests the potential of using social media in depression screening, especially in online setting.
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8786 LNCSPagination
398 - 407Publisher DOI
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0302-9743eISSN
1611-3349ISBN-13
9783319117485Publication classification
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