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Understanding Emotional Disclosure via Diary-keeping in Quarantine on Social Media

Yue Deng·Changyang He·Bo Li
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Quarantine is a widely-adopted measure during health crises caused by highly-contagious diseases like COVID-19, yet it poses critical challenges to public mental health. Given this context, emotional disclosure on social media in the form of keeping a diary emerges as a popular way for individuals to express emotions and record their mental health status. However, the exploration of emotional disclosure via diary-keeping on social media during quarantine is underexplored, understanding which could be beneficial to facilitate emotional connections and enlighten health intervention measures. Focusing on this particular form of self-disclosure, this work proposes a quantitative approach to figure out the prevalence and changing patterns of emotional disclosure during quarantine, and the possible factors contributing to the negative emotions. We collected 58, 796 posts with the "Quarantine Diary" keyword on Weibo, a popular social media website in China. Through text classification, we capture diverse emotion categories that characterize public emotion disclosure during quarantine, such as annoyed, anxious, boring, happy, hopeful and appreciative. Based on temporal analysis, we uncover the changing patterns of emotional disclosure from long-term perspectives and period-based perspectives (e.g., the gradual decline of all negative emotions and the upsurge of the annoyed emotion near the end of quarantine). Leveraging topic modeling, we also encapsulate the possible influencing factors of negative emotions, such as freedom restriction and solitude, and uncertainty of infection and supply. We reflect on how our findings could deepen the understanding of mental health on social media and further provide practical and design implications to mitigate mental health issues during quarantine.

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Yue Deng, Changyang He, Bo Li. 2024-01-14. Understanding Emotional Disclosure via Diary-keeping in Quarantine on Social Media. https://doi.org/10.1145/3629606.3629623

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