通过社交媒体语言分析发现,年龄越大越倾向用语言疏离事件,反映情绪调节能力提升。
Linguistic Distancing on Social Media: Indicators of Emotion Regulation Across Age Groups

- 用改进的语言疏离度指标分析海量社交媒体文本
- 发现语言疏离程度随年龄增长显著提高
- 为心理健康的干预与评估提供新语言标记
情绪调节是心理健康的关键,心理疏离是其重要方式。本文基于社交媒体文本,改进并应用语言疏离度指标,系统研究不同年龄群体的语言疏离特征。结果表明,语言疏离现象随年龄增长呈比例上升,支持了心理学中年龄越大情绪调节能力越强、幸福感越高的观点。该发现验证了语言疏离作为心理状态生物标记的潜力,为未来基于文本的情感调节研究提供了数据基础与基准参考。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Managing our emotional responses to events is key to emotional well-being, a process referred to as emotion regulation in psychology. Previous work has established that the degree to which we distance events is a type of emotion regulation. When we psychologically distance from events there can be markers in our language. These markers have been referred to as linguistic distancing. We build upon a previous metric to operationalize linguistic distancing, and explore how it changes across the lifespan. We explore this systematically by analyzing large amounts of social media text, a venue where people express their emotions. By investigating how distancing varies across age groups we can better understand how emotion regulation varies with age and provide initial benchmarks on social media data. We provide additional evidence further strengthening the hypothesis that linguistic distancing occurs in proportionally more instances with age. These findings align with past work in psychology which indicate improved well-being with older age. Better understanding how linguistic distancing changes with age is important because it functions as a marker of well-being and can inform effective health interventions. We provide a foundation for further exploring emotion regulation through linguistic distancing in text data.
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