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The Language of Social Support in Social Media and Its Effect on Suicidal Ideation Risk

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De Choudhury, Munmun, Kiciman, Emre·2017·Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

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Online social support is known to play a significant role in mental well-being. However, current research is limited in its ability to quantify this link. Challenges exist due to the paucity of longitudinal, pre- and post mental illness risk data, and reliable methods that can examine causality between past availability of support and future risk. In this paper, we propose a method to measure how the language of comments in Reddit mental health communities influences risk to suicidal ideation in the future. Incorporating human assessments in a stratified propensity score analysis based framework, we identify comparable subpopulations of individuals and measure the effect of online social support language. We interpret these linguistic cues with an established theoretical model of social support, and find that esteem and network support play a more prominent role in reducing forthcoming risk. We discuss the implications of our work for designing tools that can improve support provisions in online communities.

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Authors: De Choudhury, M., & Kiciman, E.
Venue: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Published: 2017-05-03
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Pages: 32-41
ISSN: 2162-3449 (ISSN-L)
2334-0770
DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v11i1.14891
PMC: PMC5565730
OpenAlex: W2596823239
Cited by: 202
References: 42
Citations by year: 2026: 15 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 6
FWCI: 29.26
Type: conference paper
Language: en
Open access: diamond
doi.org
Locations: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM112697)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Keywords: online social support, suicidal ideation, social media comments, linguistic analysis, mental illness risk, esteem, network support, online community design

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