TY - GEN
T1 - A Study of Social Media Behaviors and Mental Health Wellbeing from a Privacy Perspective
AU - Wang, Tian
AU - Bashir, Masooda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Mental healthcare services are insufficient under the current circumstances due to growing populations with mental health issues, the lack of enough mental health professionals, services, and programs that are needed. Traditional methods are often time consuming, expensive, and not timely. At the same time an increasingly number of people are using social media to interact with others and to share their personal stories and reflections. In this study we examined if online users’ social media activities were influenced by their mental well-being. To carry out this research we assessed Twitter activities between participants that reported high symptoms of depression and those with lower or no symptoms of depression. Our results confirm the influence in their activities in addition to interesting insights. We believe these findings can be beneficial to mental health care providers if users’ privacy is preserved.
AB - Mental healthcare services are insufficient under the current circumstances due to growing populations with mental health issues, the lack of enough mental health professionals, services, and programs that are needed. Traditional methods are often time consuming, expensive, and not timely. At the same time an increasingly number of people are using social media to interact with others and to share their personal stories and reflections. In this study we examined if online users’ social media activities were influenced by their mental well-being. To carry out this research we assessed Twitter activities between participants that reported high symptoms of depression and those with lower or no symptoms of depression. Our results confirm the influence in their activities in addition to interesting insights. We believe these findings can be beneficial to mental health care providers if users’ privacy is preserved.
KW - Mental health
KW - Social media behaviors
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-51328-3_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-51328-3_20
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088509107
SN - 9783030513276
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 137
EP - 144
BT - Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Systems Engineering - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Software and Systems Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing
A2 - Ahram, Tareq
PB - Springer
T2 - AHFE Virtual Conferences on Software and Systems Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing, 2020
Y2 - 16 July 2020 through 20 July 2020
ER -