2020/12/01 by Sachin Thukral, Suyash Sangwan, Thukral, Sachin +5
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Digital Mental Health Interventions #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Impact of Technology on Adolescents #Mental Health via Writing #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.00333
openalex publication_date 2020/12/01 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown natural life out of gear across the globe.\nStrict measures are deployed to curb the spread of the virus that is causing\nit, and the most effective of them have been social isolation. This has led to\nwide-spread gloom and depression across society but more so among the young and\nthe elderly. There are currently more than 200 million college students in 186\ncountries worldwide, affected due to the pandemic. The mode of education has\nchanged suddenly, with the rapid adaptation of e-learning, whereby teaching is\nundertaken remotely and on digital platforms. This study presents insights\ngathered from social media posts that were posted by students and young adults\nduring the COVID times. Using statistical and NLP techniques, we analyzed the\nbehavioral issues reported by users themselves in their posts in\ndepression-related communities on Reddit. We present methodologies to\nsystematically analyze content using linguistic techniques to find out the\nstress-inducing factors. Online education, losing jobs, isolation from friends,\nand abusive families emerge as key stress factors.\n