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Mental Health Support and its Relationship to Linguistic Accommodation in Online Communities

Sharma, Eva, De Choudhury, Munmun·2018·Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174215
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Many online communities cater to the critical and unmet needs of individuals challenged with mental illnesses. Generally, communities engender characteristic linguistic practices, known as norms. Conformance to these norms, or linguistic accommodation, encourages social approval and acceptance. This paper investigates whether linguistic accommodation impacts a specific social feedback: the support received by an individual in an online mental health community. We first quantitatively derive two measures for each post in these communities: 1) the linguistic accommodation it exhibits, and 2) the level of support it receives. Thereafter, we build a statistical framework to examine the relationship between these measures. Although the extent to which accommodation is associated with support varies, we find a positive link between the two, consistent across 55 Reddit communities serving various psychological needs. We discuss how our work surfaces a tension in the functioning of these sensitive communities, and present design implications for improving their support provisioning mechanisms.

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Authors
Sharma, E., & De Choudhury, M.
Affiliations
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Venue
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2018-04-21
Pages
1-13
DOI
10.1145/3173574.3174215
OpenAlex
W2795743556
Cited by
156
References
78
Citations by year
2026: 29 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 1
FWCI
28.28
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (R01GM112697)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
  • Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Digital Communication and Language
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
Keywords
linguistic accommodation, online mental health communities, social support, language norms, Reddit, social feedback, online communities, social acceptance

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