Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021 · 225 citations · 54 references
Social SciencesPsychologySocial PsychologyHealth PsychologySocial GeographySocial Media AnalyticsEmotional Well-beingHealth-related Quality Of LifeMental Well-beingPsychological Well-beingQuality Of LifeSocial MediaGeographic Variation AnalysisPatient Demographic VariablesRepresentative SamplesSatisfactionSocial WellbeingSubjective WellbeingWell-beingWellbeing Assessment
The language used in tweets from 1,300 different US counties was found to be predictive of the subjective well-being of people living in those counties as measured by representative surveys. Topics, sets of co-occurring words derived from the tweets using LDA, improved accuracy in predicting life satisfaction over and above standard demographic and socio-economic controls (age, gender, ethnicity, income, and education). The LDA topics provide a greater behavioural and conceptual resolution into life satisfaction than the broad socio-economic and demographic variables. For example, tied in with the psychological literature, words relating to outdoor activities, spiritual meaning, exercise, and good jobs correlate with increased life satisfaction, while words signifying disengagement like ’bored’ and ’tired’ show a negative association.
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Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress.
Ed Diener, Eunkook M. Suh, Richard E. Lucas et al. · Psychological Bulletin · 1999 · 11.2K citations