arXiv:2607.04566cs.CL2026-07

分析青少年在Reddit上关于药物使用的讨论,发现夜间周末情绪低落时讨论最多。

Characterizing the Temporal, Emotional, and Social Patterns of Adolescent Substance Use Discussions on Reddit

  • 用时间、情感与主题建模分析2018-2023年Reddit上的青少年用药讨论
  • 夜间和周末讨论量高峰,情绪以悲伤恐惧为主,话题聚焦同龄关系与家庭矛盾
  • 为精准干预提供真实在线行为证据,适合心理健康与预防研究者参考

青春期是情绪敏感、社交压力大且易受物质使用影响的关键阶段。传统研究难以获取青少年真实体验,制约了预防与干预策略的发展。社交媒体提供了观察青少年自然讨论物质使用的独特机会,可揭示其观点、情绪与生活经验,有助于早期干预。本研究分析2018至2023年间与青少年物质使用相关的大量Reddit讨论,结合逐小时日度时间分析、情感与情绪分类,以及基于Transformer的主题建模(BERTopic),探究时间、情绪与语义内容之间的互动。结果表明:物质相关讨论在周末和深夜显著上升;负面情绪如悲伤与恐惧占主导;语义主题集中于同龄人关系、家庭冲突、情绪困扰及特定物质使用体验。这些发现深化了对青少年在自然在线环境中物质使用行为的理解,为制定更及时、精准、基于实证的预防与干预策略提供了依据。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Adolescence is a critical developmental period marked by heightened emotional sensitivity, social stress, and vulnerability to substance use. However, traditional research methods provide limited access to adolescents' authentic experiences, hindering efforts to develop evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies. Social media provides a unique opportunity to observe adolescents' naturally occurring discussions about substance use, offering valuable insights into their opinions, emotions, and lived experiences that can inform early prevention and intervention strategies. In this study, we analyze large-scale Reddit discussions related to substance use among adolescents between 2018 and 2023. Leveraging hour-by-day temporal analysis, sentiment and emotion classification, and transformer-based topic modeling (BERTopic), we examine the interaction between time, emotion, and semantic content in adolescent substance use discourse. Our findings reveal pronounced weekend and late-night peaks in substance-related discussions, a dominance of negative emotions such as sadness and fear, and distinct semantic topics centered on peer relationships, family conflict, emotional distress, and substance-specific experiences. These findings advance our understanding of adolescent substance use in naturalistic online settings and provide empirical evidence to support the development of more timely, targeted, and evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies.

青少年心理社交媒体情绪分析预防干预

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