分析社交媒体发现：早上8点最焦虑，过去时比未来时更焦虑。
When are We Worried? Temporal Trends of Anxiety and What They Reveal about Us
- 用情绪词典分析美加推文，追踪焦虑时间规律。
- 早8点焦虑峰值，周末最低，过去时句式焦虑最高。
- 第三人称和主格代词内容更显焦虑，适合心理学研究者参考。
本文利用最新构建的词汇-焦虑关联词典，分析大量美国与加拿大社交媒体数据（推文），探究人们在何时感到焦虑及其背后的意义。结果表明，社交媒体上的焦虑水平呈现明显的昼夜变化规律：早8点达到峰值（与体内皮质醇水平高峰一致），正午最低；周末焦虑最低，工作日中段最高。进一步分析不同语法时态发现，过去时句子中的焦虑表达最强，未来时最弱。此外，分析包含代词的帖子显示，第三人称（he, they）内容的焦虑程度高于第一、二人称；主格代词（I, he, she, they）比宾格代词（me, him, her, them）更易引发焦虑。这些趋势揭示了时间、语言结构与心理状态之间的深层关联，为理解焦虑的认知机制提供了新视角。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In this short paper, we make use of a recently created lexicon of word-anxiety associations to analyze large amounts of US and Canadian social media data (tweets) to explore *when* we are anxious and what insights that reveals about us. We show that our levels of anxiety on social media exhibit systematic patterns of rise and fall during the day -- highest at 8am (in-line with when we have high cortisol levels in the body) and lowest around noon. Anxiety is lowest on weekends and highest mid-week. We also examine anxiety in past, present, and future tense sentences to show that anxiety is highest in past tense and lowest in future tense. Finally, we examine the use of anxiety and calmness words in posts that contain pronouns to show: more anxiety in 3rd person pronouns (he, they) posts than 1st and 2nd person pronouns and higher anxiety in posts with subject pronouns (I, he, she, they) than object pronouns (me, him, her, them). Overall, these trends provide valuable insights on not just when we are anxious, but also how different types of focus (future, past, self, outward, etc.) are related to anxiety.
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