Understanding and Measuring Psychological Stress using Social Media

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A body of literature has demonstrated that users' mental health conditions, such as depression and anxiety, can be predicted from their social media language.

• There is still a gap in the scientific understanding of how psychological stress is expressed on social media.
• Stress is one of the primary underlying causes and correlates of chronic physical illnesses and mental health conditions.
• In this paper, we explore the language of psychological stress with a dataset of 601 social media users, who answered the Perceived Stress Scale questionnaire and also consented to share their Facebook and Twitter data.