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The Language of Positive Mental Health : Findings From a Sample of Russian Facebook Users. / Bogolyubova, Olga; Panicheva, Polina; Ledovaya, Yanina; Tikhonov, Roman; Yaminov, Bulat.

в: SAGE Open, Том 10, № 2, 2158244020924370, 04.2020.

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title = "The Language of Positive Mental Health: Findings From a Sample of Russian Facebook Users",
abstract = "Positive mental health is considered to be a significant predictor of health and longevity; however, our understanding of the ways in which this important characteristic is represented in users{\textquoteright} behavior on social networking sites is limited. The goal of this study was to explore associations between positive mental health and language used in online communication in a large sample of Russian Facebook users. The five-item World Health Organization Well-Being Index (WHO-5) was used as a self-report measure of well-being. Morphological, sentiment, and semantic analyses were performed for linguistic data. The total of 6,724 participants completed the questionnaire and linguistic data were available for 1,972. Participants{\textquoteright} mean age was 45.7 years (SD = 11.6 years); 73.4% were female. The dataset included 15,281 posts, with an average of 7.67 (SD = 5.69) posts per participant. Mean WHO-5 score was 60.0 (SD = 19.1), with female participants exhibiting lower scores. Use of negative sentiment words and impersonal predicates (“should statements”) demonstrated an inverse association with the WHO-5 scores. No significant correlation was found between the use of positive sentiment words and the WHO-5 scores. This study expands current understanding of the association between positive mental health and language use in online communication by employing data from a non-Western sample.",
keywords = "distributional semantics, irrational beliefs, language, positive mental health, social media, subjective well-being, word clustering, DISTRESS, SELF-COMPASSION",
author = "Olga Bogolyubova and Polina Panicheva and Yanina Ledovaya and Roman Tikhonov and Bulat Yaminov",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2020. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
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language = "English",
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